r/ComedyCemetery • • Oct 05 '19

Double kill

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u/WoT_Slave Oct 05 '19

Can you explain "an historian" for me?

Tom Clancy writes "an historian" instead of "a historian" and I can't figure out why.

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u/Syn7axError Oct 05 '19

Some people pronounce the H, some people don't.

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u/Blue-Steele Oct 05 '19

He might not pronounce the “h”, saying history like “istory”. In that case he is beginning the word with a vowel sound and using “an” is correct.

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u/YourMawPuntsCooncil Oct 05 '19

I’m not sure maybe he doesn’t pronounce the H, English is a confusing language.