Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 9/27/83; site hplabsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!hplabsc!plaskon From: plaskon@hplabsc.UUCP (Dawn Plaskon) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Question about "an" Message-ID: <1662@hplabsc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 18:31:55 EST Article-I.D.: hplabsc.1662 Posted: Thu Feb 9 18:31:55 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 09:31:44 EST References: <567@ihuxq.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 5 As with other soft "h" words the "h" is barely pronounced, so an is the appropriate article. Thus an historic would be pronounced an i-stor-ik, an honest would be an o-nest. In thinking about it, I believe that I do pronounce the h in historic but with very little stress.