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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

"an" historical or "a historical"

I'm not sure if I should be using "an" or "a" before "historical" in this sentence:

We hope you’ll take advantage of this opportunity to create a historical keepsake.
  

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We hope you’ll take advantage of this opportunity to create a n historical keepsake. In this sentence I would use "an" because the way I say "historical" sounds like I am missing out the "h" sound, which means I pronounce it (isstorical). However you could use "a historical" if you make sure to clearly pronounce the "H" - "a Historical (saying HISStorical)

— Anonymous

  • We hope you’ll take advantage of this opportunity to create a n historical keepsake.
  • In this sentence I would use "an" because the way I say "historical" sounds like I am missing out the "h" sound, which means I pronounce it (isstorical).
  • However you could use "a historical" if you make sure to clearly pronounce the "H" - "a Historical (saying HISStorical)
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We hope you’ll take advantage of this opportunity to create an historical keepsake.

In this sentence I would use "an" because the way I say "historical" sounds like I am missing out the "h" sound, which means I pronounce it (isstorical). However you could use "a historical" if you make sure to clearly pronounce the "H" - "a Historical (saying HISS
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Depends upon how you pronounce historical.

Here is a snippet from
http://www.orlapubs.com/AL/L58.html

Usually rules become more general--with loss of restricting features. But sometimes they shrink. The rule dropping //h// before an unstressed vowel ('im for him, vehicle, veh
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