wow.. I actually heard it just now
Feb. 22nd, 2006 09:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceagleI sometimes use the exaggeration "An house is not an home" to illustrate the misuse of the article before the consonant "H", because arrogant newscasters and commentators tend to say things like "An historic moment" to sound like they know english better than the rest of us.... but I actually heard one say 'an house' just now on tv.... arrrgh! :P
An honor ... correct
An homage ... correct
An host, an hobnail, an hovercraft ... wrong
(the article preceding the H is guided by whether it is silent, and thus used as a vowel, or emphasized as a consonant)
peep!
An honor ... correct
An homage ... correct
An host, an hobnail, an hovercraft ... wrong
(the article preceding the H is guided by whether it is silent, and thus used as a vowel, or emphasized as a consonant)
peep!
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he he hee!
Date: 2006-02-23 01:15 am (UTC)True true.... another local matter of pronunciation I would theeeeenk!
And my inclination is that this is just fine, as long as the "sound rule" still applies to the article.... so that if the h is silent, use "an" and if the h is used as a huffing consonant, g'wan ahead and use the "a" preceding, just so that the language flows as rhythmically as possible ... *chyrp!*