Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!mhuxm!pyuxww!pyuxa!wetcw From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: initial h's Message-ID: <562@pyuxa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Feb-84 13:17:50 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxa.562 Posted: Fri Feb 10 13:17:50 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 08:43:56 EST References: <5437@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: Central Services Org., Piscataway N.J. Lines: 7 Wrong, the "h" is not silent in the word historic. Further, it is also proper usage to use the "a" form in fornt of historic. Any other usage is an affectation. Re.; Modern English Usage" H. Fowler. (Read front for fornt). Can't get used to vi. Try saying an historic. Now say a historic. See the difference? The "h" in the first example is buried. Not so in the second.