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Ana poland Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
'an' article with h-initial words
Hi,
I've beern reading a Vonnegut novel and I've come across instances of using 'an' article with h-initial words. Here are the examples.
'The fountain was very much like an hallucination'
'... its's only an humble admission on my part...'
The novel is from 1959. Was the initial /h/ mute at that time?
T.I.A.
Ania
I've beern reading a Vonnegut novel and I've come across instances of using 'an' article with h-initial words. Here are the examples.
'The fountain was very much like an hallucination'
'... its's only an humble admission on my part...'
The novel is from 1959. Was the initial /h/ mute at that time?
T.I.A.
Ania
Top answer
Hi Ana Poland! This now sounds old-fashioned.
- Hi Ana Poland!
- This now sounds old-fashioned.
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Hi Ana Poland! Some speakers do not pronounce the ''h'' at the beginning of hallucination and use an instead of ''a'' before it.This now sounds old-fashioned.
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Thanks, one more thing. Other than being old-fasioned, could this pronounciation also be indicative of any particular dialect or part of the U.S?
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An is a mistake; it must be a. The words hallucination and humble are correctly pronounced with a beginning consonant sound.
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