"A" vs "An" ....grammar trivia

[Randi]

You can also use the Font drop-down to see what symbols are available in all those special "weird" fonts that come with Windows, like Wingdings etc.

[smokey the elder]

The expression "an historic" bugs the heck out of me. You pronounce the "h", so the consonent rule applies.

[RedHedd]

You can make Word use "smart quotes" (right and left facing sets as appropriate) by changing your options. You have to dig to get to it, but once you set it, it will make nice pretty curly appostrophes and quotation marks every time. The only time it gets confuzzled is if you make edits.

[Catty1]

Actually, I HAVE heard "an historic" used in speech, without the H - usually, it is for a more formal event, even on a newscast. The launching of the Titanic was an event that could have been described that way.

[Miss Z]

Actually, I HAVE heard "an historic" used in speech, without the H - usually, it is for a more formal event, even on a newscast. The launching of the Titanic was an event that could have been described that way.

In my local dialect I would probably say 'an 'istoric'. Although when typing I still think it is appropriate to use the correct grammar.

It is also correct in British writing, I believe.

Yeah, I was always taught " is for speech, ' is an apostrophe or for quotation.

[Catty1]

Zara, speaking of dialect - WAY before you were born, Petula Clark made her first appearance on a North American TV show - I THINK it was Ed Sullivan.

Anyway, "Pet" told Ed that the British were the only people that had a word to rhyme with "orange".

"What's that?" asked Ed.

"Door'inge," she replied.

[Miss Z]

Zara, speaking of dialect - WAY before you were born, Petula Clark made her first appearance on a North American TV show - I THINK it was Ed Sullivan.

Anyway, "Pet" told Ed that the British were the only people that had a word to rhyme with "orange".

"What's that?" asked Ed.

"Door'inge," she replied.

LMAO!