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From: pigrp@ihuxq.UUCP (Peter Fales)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Question about "an"
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Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 11:36:46 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 31 11:36:46 1984
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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?

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