Huh?
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From: "geoff carver" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: speaking as an/a historian
> OED:
> <unknown>An is freq. bef. a consonant to end of 13, bef. sounded h until
18.
> In standard English an is now used bef. a vowel sound (including h mute),
as
> an egg, an honour; a bef. a consonant (including sounded h and eu-, u-
> pronounced /jU, ju:/) as a pen, a host, a eunuch, a unit. But bef. an
> unaccented syll., some retain an bef. sounded h, as an historian, a
smaller
> number bef. eu-, u-, as an university.
>
> geoff carver - SUNY buffalo
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