Monday, September 27, 2010

An Honor to Be of Assistance

Apparently when the first letter "H" in a word is mute you use the article "an" before it. I guess it's about the sound of the word rather than the actual spelling.

So says this.

Presumably this rule applies to the phrase "An Hundred" as a holdover from back in the day when everyone in the world spoke with a cockney accent.

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