Re: an + h (was: aquamarine demon (was <no subject>))

--- Nik Taylor froge sionk:
> Okay, going thru my dictionary for "h" words, I discovered that my
> simple statement "an before h with unstressed vowels" isn't
> entirely
> correct, it's usually true, yet, I'd say "a horrendous", "a
> harpoon", "a
> hyena", and I'm not sure about "a heroic" or "an heroic".  But, all
> other /h/-initial words with unstressed initial syllables take
> "an".
> Very strange.
>
what about the difference between pronouncing the article "a" as in
"take" or "a" as in the vowel sound of "monkey"... is it completely
random and arbitrary or is there some sort of logic behind it... i
tried saying "a monkey" with both pronounciations and neither one
sounded better than the other... or am i the only person who
pronounces it in two different ways...

are you often a monkey?
~nicole

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