[78-L] A or An [was When is an LP an Lp]^

[David Lennick]

On 10/21/2010 10:47 PM, Don Chichester wrote:
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>>>
>>
>> Sorry, but nobody who wants to sound like anything but a phony baloney says "an
>> historical". Unless you're in a Monty Python sketch. "This is a historic
>> moment" sounds like people communicating. "This is an historic moment" sounds
>> like pretentious bullshit.
>>
>> dl
>
> Maybe, but I 'hear' the voice of Edward R. Murrow saying "an historic moment" numerous times.
> Sorry.
> Don 		 	   		
> ___________________________________________

And Murrow could be pretentious. Great journalist, important broadcaster. I 
wouldn't send Murrow a memo but I'd bawl out any announcer I heard using that 
expression. If anyone can show me a style book where it's considered 
acceptable, I'll slink back into my cave.

dl