On Feb 6, 2005, at 11:47 PM, Gary Shannon wrote:
> --- Doug Dee <AmateurLinguist@...> wrote:
>> In a message dated 2/6/2005 7:46:11 PM Eastern
>> Standard Time,fiziwig@YAHOO.COM writes:
>>> I don't even begin to understand why 'y' would be
>>> classed as anything but a vowel.
>> If, like every English-speaker I've ever met, you
>> say "a year", not "an
>> year", then that is evidence that in your
>> phonological system the "y" sound at the
>> start of "year" is a consonant. (Because the
>> general rule is "an" before
>> vowels and "a" before consonants.)
> That was an historic event.
> Aha! 'H' is a vowel! I always wondered about that.
> ;-)
Noooooooo!!!!!!!
That's a pet peeve of mine! I hate(s) it!
(insert "S" for gollum-styling)
It's either pronounced _a historical_ or _an 'istorical_! Not _an
historical_!!!
People pronouncing it that way make me _hysterical_! ;-)
:-P
-Stephen (Steg)
"and it's a heave-ho! hi-ho! coming down the plains
stealing wheat and barley and all the other grains
and it's a ho-hey! hi-hey! farmers bar your doors
when you see the jolly roger on regina's mighty shores"
~ from 'the last saskatchewan pirate'