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Re: "a historian"...
From:
"G. Alcock" <[log in to unmask]>
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HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 8 Dec 2003 20:16:00 -0800
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On the other hand, SRI's company style guide dictates
"a" before historic/al,
and '...never "an"....'

(Matt, Anne, Pam, and other SRI'ers lurking out there,
please note this and do not be tempted into wicked
ways by the SHA Style Guide.)

Gwyn Alcock
SRI, Redlands

--- "G. Alcock" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> To quote the Society for Historical Archaeology
> Publications Style Guide (2001)
> "an historic; an historical; an historian"
> (Section V .E .3)

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