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English: A vs. An

365 points · 529 comments · azhenley

  1. dataflow · · focus · HN ↗
    Any verdict for "historic"?
    1. layer8 · · focus · HN ↗
      Both are being used and neither is incorrect. “An historic” used to be more prevalent in British English until around 1990, but “a historic” has become the standard choice now: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;books.google.com&#x2F;ngrams&#x2F;graph?content=a+historic%2Can+historic&amp;year_start=1800&amp;year_end=2022&amp;corpus=en&amp;smoothing=3&amp;case_insensitive=false" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;books.google.com&#x2F;ngrams&#x2F;graph?content=a+historic%2Ca...
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