A historic first? Beats me. But interesting:
Has a president ever publicly acknowledged (in a neutral fashion) the existence of atheist Americans?
A historic first? Beats me. But interesting:
Has a president ever publicly acknowledged (in a neutral fashion) the existence of atheist Americans?
A number of my friends noted this too.
An historic first? Possibly. A historic first? Never!
Grammar person says both are correct.
‘An historic’ only works if you forget there is an H due to regional variances in languages.
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.
I think that there have already been many atheist President’s..just none that have been willing to admit to such.
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.
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.
Nah. we say ‘an hour’ because there’s no h sound. i don’t pronounce historic as ‘istoric’.
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.”
‘A historic’ is also correct.
It is, if you mean “not historic,” but in that case the preferred spelling is one word, not two.