>an historic
An historic
Anthony Flores
Parker Clark
>doesn’t know basic grammar
John Collins
>google A v An
>"Use a before words that start with a consonant sound and an before words that start with a vowel sound. Other letters can also be pronounced either way. Just remember it is the sound that governs whether you use a or an, not the actual first letter of the word."
>historic starts with h
>h is not a vowel sound
>"an historic" is wrong
>pic related is you
Adrian Nelson
>an herbal recipe
Drives me up the wall.
Joseph Lee
>Some speakers and writers use an before a word beginning with the sound /h/ in an unstressed syllable: an historical novel, an hotel.[7] When this is spoken, the "h" is not pronounced so "an hotel", for example, sounds like "an 'otel". However, this usage is now less common. Some dialects, particularly in England (such as Cockney), silence many or all initial h sounds (h-dropping), and so employ an in situations where it would not be used in the standard language, like an 'elmet (standard English: a helmet).
Aaron Mitchell
should be "a" because it's a hard h
should be "an" because the h is basically silent.
that's how I think about it anyway.
How does Veeky Forums feel about ending a sentence with a preposition?
Robert Cooper
>mfw i used to say HOmage
>mfw I asked the english teacher in front of the whole class why something said "an HOmage"
Daniel Davis
H is silent in history. It's pronounced 'IS' 'STORY'.
Kevin Adams
>Thenceforward
Brody Cook
How do you pronounce "macabre"? Is it like muh-caw-breh or muh-cawb
Elijah Torres
mayh-cäb-REEEE
Isaac Perez
I think Americans tend to pronounce the 'h' in herb.
>How does Veeky Forums feel about ending a sentence with a preposition?
Completely acceptable.
Dylan Wilson
Muhcob
Fuck off you limey cunt
Jacob Collins
/ma.kabɚ/
Asher Morgan
Xavier Gomez
that's an hell of an argument user
Sebastian Bennett
Oh, you've misunderstood me, I'm not trying to argue with you, for I know that I'm right and you're wrong. I'm just mocking you because I want to discourage idiots like you from posting.
Joshua Peterson
Is this the only accepted pronunciation of "herb" in the USA? I hate Americanisms.
>one-hundred five
>two liter root beer
Isaiah Cooper
>Use 'a' before words that start with a consonant
Does H look a vowel to you?
Carter Lopez
I don't pronounce the 'h' and have had people ask if I'm foreign because of it. I've lived in burgerland all my life but I had / have a speech impediment so a bunch of my pronunciations are fucked up.
Chase Flores
>an hero
Caleb Williams
an kek
Leo Thomas
If anime dubs and cartoons have taught me anything, it's that Americans tend to heavily pronounce the r and not pronounce the h at all in the word herb, unless it's from the name Herbert.
Lincoln Russell
silent Hs are american mutt memes that don't actually exist
John Brown
You're not wrong.
>en.wikipedia.org
Ryan Perry
>would that
Ayden Williams
he may be french or spanish
Dominic Ramirez
h is a vowel sound...isn't it?
Brody Reed
Because ahistoric is a word. Rules can be bent to avoid confusion.
Eli Baker
an historic sounds better than "a" historic. Same with an heretic or an homeless man.
Jace Johnson
no. it greatly reduces fluidity, just stumbling upon that eich. unless you're french or spanish as that user said.
Luis Lopez
>shews
Nathaniel Davis
Prefer voles myself
Christopher Cox
Depending on your dialect, some people do not pronounce the h in historic.
Carson Cox
Ending with a preposition is fine. It’s an arbitrary rule from Latin.
Carter Cruz
nothing beats weasels desu
Easton Lee
That shit really used to confuse me when I read the KJV as a child and expressions like "an hungered" came up but it shouldn't confuse anybody old enough to know that pronunciation changes over time and differs from place to place
Dominic Gomez
Every poster in this thread would go apoplectic walking around Boston
Chase Price
Okay, so this is another shitty pronounciation thread. Good thing this exists, I didn't want to make another.
Am currently reading Odyssey (out loud, mind you) and I have no idea how to pronounce Athene, Poseidon (don't know which syllable is stressed here) or Odysseus. I keep saying
>eighteen
>po-say-dawn
>o-dee-sews
Am I ever...gonna make it?
Also are there any definite rules for english pronounciation in general or is just every imported word keeping its previous one?
Luke Barnes
I don't know how the Greeks did/do it but I've always said them kinda like "puh-sigh-don" and "oh-dissy-is"
Aiden Brooks
There aren't definite rules for pronunciation in any language, there are always irregularities. English just happens to be highly irregular because it imported half its vocabulary.
Angel Edwards
Why not try to approximate the way ancient Greeks pronounced it?
en.wikipedia.org
Kevin Jackson
>Athene
/əˈθiːniː/ or /aˈθi.ni/
A as in comma, ago, or, as in palm, bra
th as in thigh, math
e as in flEEce, sEEd
n as in nigh, snide
e the same as above
A-thee-nee, with the stress on "thee": a-THEE-nee. Or you could just call her Athena/ it Athens.
Jason Cook
everyone in this thread (before me) needs to be chemically castrated and used as manual labor
Jack Wright
Why?
Justin Jenkins
Don't do this, it makes you sound like an idiot and is as correct, when speaking English, as pronouncing Paris "pairee" Just look up dictionary pronunciations.
Liam Peterson
H is a rough breathing on a vowel, it is not a consonant.
I'm sorry to hear that you never studied linguistics beyond a burgerland kindergarten level.
Ian Wright
using "An" instead of "A" randomly makes you sound smarter, same thing with "whom", just toss a couple of those out there and your IQ goes up by at least 50
Chase White
kek
Jaxon Anderson
>randomly
Juan Foster
>an UFO
Andrew Jones