rone: (Default)
[personal profile] rone

Why the hell do people write "an historical" when nobody pronounces it "istorical"? Who the hell started this trend and why did it catch on?

Date: 2003-12-02 09:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fredfred.livejournal.com
It's not pretentious, it's just dialect. One of my professors -- least pretentious guy you'll ever meet -- just said it that way. "yuman beings". He was from NY somewhere.

Profile

rone: (Default)
entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones

December 2022

S M T W T F S
    123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627282930 31

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated May. 14th, 2026 06:07 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios