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Old 20-May-2007, 06:48
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Default Re: a/an historic event

Yes Casiopea I already mentioned phonetic and stress reasons or do you mean dialectal differences? Which one do you personally prefer? generally speaking an historic would violate the English system now because it is old fashioned. Shall we call it outdated?

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