Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxq!pigrp From: pigrp@ihuxq.UUCP (Peter Fales) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Question about "an" Message-ID: <567@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 11:36:46 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxq.567 Posted: Tue Jan 31 11:36:46 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 05:15:04 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 11 Any ideas why some words beginning with the letter h (the one I have seen frequently is "historic") are written with the article "an" rather than "a," as in "an historic event." This doesn't sound right to me, considering the way most people pronounce "historic." Is there any other pronunciation? -- Peter Fales ihuxq!iwlc7!psfales IW-1Z243 (312) 979-7784