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A Actual Killstreak mod
Kalphiter:
--- Quote from: Blooker on November 18, 2012, 07:00:44 PM ---I'm British and even I know that Americans say "a" before a vowel.
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What are you talking about?
We just don't put "an" in handicapped places, like before "historical", and "hermit"; it's placed where it belongs: before "herb", "idiot", but not before "unicycle".
hodototman:
--- Quote from: Kalphiter on November 18, 2012, 07:05:15 PM ---but not before "unicycle".
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Somehow I never noticed that.
John Freeman:
--- Quote from: Blooker on November 18, 2012, 07:00:44 PM ---I'm British and even I know that Americans say "a" before a vowel.
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Im American and i say "an" before a vowel
Gen. Hothauser:
'An' goes before vowel sounds, not vowels. 'A' goes before consonant sounds, not consonants. Examples of these specifications are:
A unicorn
An historic (formal)
A historic (modern)
Can't think of any more. Too tired.
Why can "historic" have both "a" and "an"? The word "History" is derived from French, in which "H", before "I", is a vowel. L'histoire is French history, in which "L' " is a masculine 'abbreviation' for Le histoire because of how the flow would be interrupted if said Le histoire. Therefore, the formal way of the English history is "an history", with a slightly silent "H" sound, and a slur from the an to history. The modern way of writing it is "a history" because English has become more choppy and more enunciated so as to clearly deliver and convey messages; thus, the "h" sound in history is pronounced, and so it is also correct to say"a history".
MonkeyFunkyMonkey:
WHY IS THIS ABOUT GRAMMAR?