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To: Achilles who wrote (1324)	5/28/1998 11:26:00 AM
From: Kid Rock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

Hi Grammar Gang. I would like to invite you over the the Short Stories 50 words or less thread. I would love for you to contribute. I would also like to see the quality of the entries improved by sincere and intelligent critiques. Thanks, Tom P.S. You may want to start here #reply-4622032

To: Achilles who wrote (1324)	5/28/1998 12:33:00 PM
From: Wizzer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

I was listening to the news at noon, and I heard the anchor use a choice of words that I found out of place. He described an event in Cuba as, "...an historic event..." The 'h' is pronounced clearly in historic, and I feel it should be "...a historic event..." I had always thought that if the start of a word sounds like a vowel, even if there is a consonant there, then 'an' is the proper choice. If the consonant is pronounced, then it is 'a'. Is there an exception in this case, or was it an error? I believe it was an error, or he mistakenly added it while reading.