User talk:Cetona08

Grammar
It might be useful if you find out the correct rules of grammar before making any further gramatical corrections. The word 'an' only ever precedes a vowel. There was a tendency at one time for snobs to precede words starting in 'h' with 'an' where the the word was taken from the French where the 'h' was silent in the French pronounciation. This practice was partially adopted by those ignorant of the correct usage. It remains as incorrect today as it has ever been. The Oxford Dictionary of English Usage has a very good entry on the subject - It's easy to find, as it's the first entry in the work. DieSwartzPunkt (talk) 17:25, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

This says otherwise. Beach drifter (talk) 17:38, 30 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Oxford University (publishers of the work I cited) are regarded as the guardians of the English language and its usage and certainly trump any citations in the reference from Beach Drifter. However, I am not going to continue a conflict over such a trivial matter. DieSwartzPunkt (talk) 11:22, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

It is based on the sound of the word. In American English, "an herb" is correct, just as "an hour" or "a union" are both correct. Cetona08 (talk) 17:07, 2 May 2011 (UTC)