[OT] @grammar

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 06:43:35PM -0600, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Monday, March 30, 2020 6:31:35 PM MDT Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d 
> wrote:
[...]
> > While we're off-topic, let's talk about what scratches my ears most:
> > “an his­toric event”. Nooo! :) My Turkishness requires sounding that
> > 'h' well, so it should be "a historic event". :)
> 
> Well, that stems from how it _used_ to not have the h sound (coming
> from the French word, histoire, which has no h sound), but yeah, given
> that history is definitely pronounced with an h in modern English, it
> should definitely be "a" history/historic/etc. and not "an"
> history/historic/etc. now. Some schools may still teach "an history"
> though. It can take a while for some of that stuff to shift.
[...]

I've never heard of anyone recommending "an history", but then again,
hyper-correcting oneself is a known phenomenon in linguistics, where
sometimes people retroactively reconstruct a supposedly more accurate /
historical / etc form that actually never existed historically.


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