wow.. I actually heard it just now

[ceagle]

I 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!

Comments

Re: wooot! so glad!

[secret-wolver.livejournal.com]

I'm not very good with English. I use grammar check a lot.

Thanks for the link to the comic. At first I was like "Ok, what's going on?" but I started to like it. Peter is a riot.

I was disappointed how they ended it and then restarted in another comic but sent Peter off in the first strip.

Anyways, thanks bud. *Hugs*

-Winchell