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De_El:
What really bothers me is "yoo-man" for "human" and "yooge" for "huge." My freshman world history teacher did it all the time and RRRRRRRRRRR arg ugh blecgkh
Lines:
Dear Blop Throp,
I swear I will smash all the phones if people do not stop calling the store. And then I will throw them into the street for people to run over to make damn sure people stop calling.
michaelicious:
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--- Quote from: jhocking on 02 Dec 2008, 07:40 ---That is what I meant, and if that isn't true then I simply don't understand saying "an horrific" because H is a consonant.
Incidentally, the main word where I see people do that is "hotel" (ie. people writing "an hotel.") I'm not sure why, other than I guess "hotel" is probably the most common H word in typical modern day conversation.
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I hear it most often with historic. I'm not grammatically perfect, by any means, but it's one of those things that drives me absolutely batshit.
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Sometimes it is grammatically correct to write "an" before a word that begins with "h", like when you don't pronounce the "h" sound (e.g., "an honour", "I made an honest mistake"). I think people generally use "an" when the word in question has more three or more syllables (like "historic") too, but that is just personal preference.
jhocking:
Yeah, the rule is based on sound, not spelling (ie. what matters is whether the word is pronounced with a vowel first, not whether it is spelled with a vowel first; an example in the other direction is "unicorn" because that is pronounced with a consonant Y first) and that's why I assumed it had to do with different accents.
As for the 3 syllables thing, that sounds pretty fishy to me.
evernew:
I am all packed and on the way to the airport to jump continents, big-ass bodies of water and some timezones, too.
Depending on how this trip turns out, I may meet some of you in meatlife (with or without realizing) but if worse comes to worst this may be my last post. Like, ever. :-o
And in this train of thought I have one thing to say to you.
I love you all. :laugh:
(Everybody living somewhere in or at the Pacific ocean, send me a message if you feel like it. I'd like to come to meet and hang out.)
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