Re: What is correct english

Quoth Polychromic <macecil@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
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> Because it's an "ef" sound. So basically you have to know how the
> words are pronounced.

There is, however, currently a movement in British English to revert to
a more French form of pronunciation, with an initial H always treated
as silent for the purposes of the indefinite article, giving us: "an
historic" and other such oddities.

Personally, I think such an approach is stupid, because it's more
difficult to say, so I sneer at it. :b

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