[NHCOLL-L:1383] Re: Er barium ?

[Elizabeth Moore]

Maybe I'm just showing my age and maybe English usage rules have changed
some but when I was in school (and no, those weren't the horse and buggy
days) if the "h" on a word was not pronounced, you used "an" as in "an
herbarium" or "an hourglass."

If you want to talk about using nouns as verbs then you can have my
attention...

Elizabeth

Elizabeth Moore
VMNH

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Rauch" <peterr at socrates.Berkeley.EDU>
To: <NHCOLL-L at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 11:31 AM
Subject: [NHCOLL-L:1381] Er barium ?


> On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Michael Cooper wrote:
> > Subject: [NHCOLL-L:1377] Re: annotation dates
> ...
> > I have a problem with "aN herbarium" too ... perhaps I'm just pedantic.
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> ..a problem even when the person pronounces it "er-barium" ?
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> Peter
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