Should it be AN Hawaiin? That's what I would have written, so I looked it up..... NOTE: Up until the 20th Century, it was preferable to use "an" in front of an h. This practice disappeared slowly throughout the 20th Century, and by the 1950's it was already considered mostly archaic, except for some words. By the 1980's it was completely archaic and considered pompous if used.
Aircon, post: 147229939, member: 199"]Should it be AN Hawaiin? That's what I would have written, so I looked it up..... NOTE: Up until the 20th Century, it was preferable to use "an" in front of an h. This practice disappeared slowly throughout the 20th Century, and by the 1950's it was already considered mostly archaic, except for some words. By the 1980's it was completely archaic and considered pompous if used.[/QUOTE] So you used “an” until the 20th century and now you’re considered archaic and pompous? This place is getting easier and easier to understand. Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat
So you used “an” until the 20th century and now you’re considered archaic and pompous? This place is getting easier and easier to understand. Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat[/QUOTE] He is still an cant
="greg246, post: 147229967, member: 8629"]So you used “an” until the 20th century and now you’re considered archaic and pompous? This place is getting easier and easier to understand. Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat[/QUOTE] He is still an cant[/QUOTE] OLIO Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat
So you used “an” until the 20th century and now you’re considered archaic and pompous? This place is getting easier and easier to understand. Sent from my iPhone using FerrariChat[/QUOTE] That's the bit I picked up on in particular. Made sense to me too. Gee you're annoying.
He is still an cant[/QUOTE] I keep telling the person I live with not to use the word "cant" with me ...... it should be "shouldn't" ........ as in "you cant, shoot PP!!" .... it should be " you shouldnt, shoot PP " But we all know that's not true
I keep telling the person I live with not to use the word "cant" with me ...... it should be "shouldn't" ........ as in "you cant, shoot PP!!" .... it should be " you shouldnt, shoot PP " But we all know that's not true [/QUOTE] I’m sure there are times when ‘can’t’ IS the correct word for the situation...
I swear I was taught to use "an" in school but it may have been my schoolteacher father that instilled it in me. Oddly, my partner and I were discussing it recently because she read something with "an" and thought it was a typo. She went to a quite good private school, so it seemed odd that I was using the "fancier" phrasing. Of course, I did grow up in the country and they were decades behind in everything.
He is still an cant[/QUOTE] It goes back hundreds of years, when it was fashionable for the upper class in England to use some French words and French pronunciations. French was used in the royal courts as the preferred language. Perhaps this is where "Lingua Franca" comes from . "An hotel" sounds a bit strange, these days, but "an historic" still sounds right. I think the practice will die out. If you call PP "a horrible cant", that sounds right. Hopefully, his illiteracy doesn't stretch to saying "haitch" when he means "aitch".
I’m sure there are times when ‘can’t’ IS the correct word for the situation...[/QUOTE] You’ve used the commas incorrectly. Or have you?...... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
