Posted on 07/07/2016 5:08:47 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
I can't remember where I was when Neil Armstrong took his giant leap on the Moon, or when Princess Diana died. But I remember where I was the first time I ever used Google.
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Say you wanted to find articles about the Clinton body count. A generic search for "Clinton body count" turns up lots of recent articles about it. But not anything contemporaneous.
Stoooopid headline (a historic is correct), even stooooopider article
If you don’t remember what you were doing when Armstrong walked on the moon, you still need adult supervision
Good one
Actually, it’s “an historic.” It’s an exception to the rule. Hey, I don’t make the rules, I just follow them.
:: (a historic is correct) ::
Niagara Falls! Slowly, I turn.
“an historic” is grammatically correct. I, for one, am pleased to see a journalist use the correct grammatical formulation of the English phraseology.
Well, we do remember where we were when Pricess Di got killed. In Geneva getting ready to head back to the US. As far as Armstrong, I was bobbing around the Med on a destroyer escort. Or had we already moved in to the north Atlantic.
‘An’ is correct because ‘historic’ has a ‘soft’ consonant sound instead of a ‘hard’ consonant sound..............................
An high expectation?
An hippopotamus?
"S" is a soft consonant, "z," so too with "t" vs. "d." Should the same distinction be made there?
"Historic" is the only word I consistently hear used this way in this country (I could be wrong about that), so while it is fairly common I'm not familiar with any English grammar "rule" prescribing "an" as the indefinite article. My feeling, and that is all it is, is that in Britain "an" is sometimes used. They do say, I think, "an hippopotamus." But I've never heard Americans say that.
Sorry, “s” is the soft consonant and “z” the hard one, so too with “t” vs, “d.”
Depends on the age, I suppose.
The King James Bible uses “an helpmate” but modern translations use “a helper”......................
I know exactly where I was for the moon walk and when Di was killed. I do not remember when I first used that evil search google but I do know I cringe when I on rare occasions I have to use it.
I’m a grammar NAZI, but that drives me crazy. Sorry. I do not accept this nonsense of a silent h. I never speak that way. Refuse to acknowledge such a stupid point.
I remember and I was 7 at the time. I also remember clearly after watching the broadcast walking outside and looking up at the moon.....
As far as Google being great, I do not think so.
They long ago removed easy access to their “Advanced Search” page. I just have had it bookmarked forever, so still have it easily. Cannot find it if I use their base page.
Even so, their advance does NOT obey what it says it will. It STILL gives results from using each (and sometimes, some) words from my PHRASE search. Sometimes I want exactly that phrase and only that phrase! But it pretends it wasn’t in the mode.
Excite and the like back then used Boolean and obeyed it quite well. I remember doing that 15-20 years ago. I knew their coding rules and used it. The results did not seem any worse to me.
Can someone please enlighten me how the death of a morally bankrupt socialite compares with the great events in history where we remember the details of where we were and what we were doing?
I would put Neil Armstrong’s moon walk, the Challenger explosion, 9/11 in that category. The death of Diana? meh...
I couldn’t care less about Lady Di. Why would I have anything close to a flashbulb memory of it? As if she was so damn important.
You’re correct of course, but I think the “equivalency” just shows the decline in our society.
Remember, there are 3.5 million people watching “Keeping up with the Kardashians” every week....
No it isn’t check Strunk and Whote or any other grammar book. The h is adpirated in historic
No it is not. The h is adpirated in historic.
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