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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

AN or A

an goes before every vowel sound. an honor, and also some single letter or acronyms with vowel sounds like an F or an MRI.

there isn't a consensus on historical (or history, or historian) because the h is pronounced softly, so it can be said either a historical or an historical.

source:Guide to Grammar and Style by Jack Lynch.
Posted by SSJ at 3:16 PM

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