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Anonymous commented at 2016-04-26 20:50:23 » #1939834
Actually, "a historic" is correct. The beginning sound of the following word determines whether to use "a" or "an". Since "historic" uses its H as a consonant (such as in horse, hand, hammer), it should use "a". If the H in "historic" were silent (such as in honest, hour, honor), then it would use "an". However, most English speakers do pronounce the H in "historic", therefore grammar rules do dictate that it should be "a historic". It's far more commonly said the other way, though, so the technically-correct way sounds wrong.
That said, language is malleable, regional, and constantly changing, so there's no particular need to stress over which is correct - people understand what you mean either way.
And now back to fapping.
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Actually, "a historic" is correct. The beginning sound of the following word determines whether to use "a" or "an". Since "historic" uses its H as a consonant (such as in horse, hand, hammer), it should use "a". If the H in "historic" were silent (such as in honest, hour, honor), then it would use "an". However, most English speakers do pronounce the H in "historic", therefore grammar rules do dictate that it should be "a historic". It's far more commonly said the other way, though, so the technically-correct way sounds wrong.
That said, language is malleable, regional, and constantly changing, so there's no particular need to stress over which is correct - people understand what you mean either way.
And now back to fapping.
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