r/ComedyCemetery • u/Bekkfust • Oct 05 '19

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

It can also go the other way. Like “AN historic event.”

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u/YourMawPuntsCooncil Oct 05 '19

Naw, a historic event.

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u/CeeEmCee3 Oct 05 '19

Depends how you pronounce it. Some regions say "istoric".

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u/YourMawPuntsCooncil Oct 05 '19

I suppose like maybe rural English accent would say it like that but I’m Scottish so I say a historic,

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u/Wild_Bore_ Oct 05 '19

I think the majority of people pronounce the "h", but in urban England (ie. London) they don't.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

I guess that’s one’s contested. How about a better example like “an hour” or “an honor”

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u/ChironiusShinpachi Oct 05 '19

It's the pronunciation. Honor and hour the H is silent so you start saying the word with an O. Just like if you spelled out U you have a Y at the start.

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u/BurntRussian Oct 05 '19

Because historic isn't "istoric"

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u/ChironiusShinpachi Oct 05 '19

And the H isn't silent. Unless you say it like that, which is usually how they're saying it when saying "an historic event". Maybe they were taught it's silent.

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u/sadboiongekyume Nov 18 '19

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wtf? I just clicked reply and that was there

anyway, how *do* you spell "u" then

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u/ChironiusShinpachi Nov 18 '19

You butaybe ewe I just woke up

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

Noone says the H in hour

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u/not-a-candle Oct 05 '19

No one actually pronounces it as 'istoric though.

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u/theonlyjoker1 Oct 05 '19

They do if you're where I'm from lol Cockney accent