Poll: Pay homage
Pay homage |
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Votes: 268
Comments: 4
Added: March 2006
Comments:
| udara sankalpa - 30th June 2007 03:54 |
| This is an uncountable nounl so an article may not be used. |
| Vidableek - 8th October 2008 18:06 |
| It's in the same sense as debt. You can't pay a, or an, debt, you pay debt. First off, it sounds weird. And you can't do anything with one debt, one debt doesn't exist... well, in that sense it doesn't. |
| nomage - 25th March 2010 22:01 |
| reply to: udara sankalpe and Vidableek: Why can't you count? I have several debts. I have 2 credit card debts, and a mortgage - 3 debts in all. And: I have paid 13 homages to the people of this nation. Tomorrow I will perform a(n) homage to the Cree. I actually answered the question incorrectly though. I answered "A homage", when both are correct. It depends on how you pronounce "homage". Pronounce the "h" and it's "a homage". With a silent "h", it's "an (h)omage." The problem here is when you write it down, you have to assume the way the reader will pronounce it. Isn't English awesome? |
| akeva - 14th May 2010 14:39 |
| reply to: nomage if you're rhyming it with 'midge' then you should always pronounce the 'h' (therefore 'a' not 'an'). To say 'an homage' you'd need to be using the French pronunciation. |
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