Interesting
A historic first? Beats me. But interesting:
Has a president ever publicly acknowledged (in a neutral fashion) the existence of atheist Americans?
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January 20th, 2009 at 8:08 pm
A number of my friends noted this too.
January 20th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
An historic first? Possibly. A historic first? Never!
January 20th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Grammar person says both are correct.
‘An historic’ only works if you forget there is an H due to regional variances in languages.
January 20th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
All I know is there’ll be a gay Muslim lesbian one legged Chinese hooker president before there’ll be an atheist president.
Seriously. There will.
January 21st, 2009 at 3:05 am
I think that there have already been many atheist President’s..just none that have been willing to admit to such.
January 21st, 2009 at 8:13 am
Nah. “An historic” works because an h barely qualifies as a consonant to begin with, and in the case of “historic,” the initial syllable is unstressed. “An history book” would be wrong in every dialect.
January 21st, 2009 at 8:15 am
Another first was that Obama was sworn in by a Supreme Court Justice that the President elect didn’t support for his position on the SCOTUS.
January 21st, 2009 at 10:33 am
Nah. we say ‘an hour’ because there’s no h sound. i don’t pronounce historic as ‘istoric’.
January 21st, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Of course we say “an” before an h that isn’t pronounced at all. That’s not the issue here. “An historic” is correct whether you say “historic” (as most of us do) or “istoric” as they do in Cockney). No one says both “history” and “istoric,” but many do (and all should) say “a history” and “an historic.”
January 21st, 2009 at 10:12 pm
‘A historic’ is also correct.
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:40 am
It is, if you mean “not historic,” but in that case the preferred spelling is one word, not two.