Friday, January 16, 2009

There's a fucking H in it!

Is the H in "historic" properly pronounced in any dialect? I pronounce it on principle (a practice that predates Eddie Izzard, by the way), but I've heard people say "an historic" in Canadian, US, and UK English.

2 comments:

laura k said...

Wait, I don't understand. Do people pronounce the word historic as "istoric"?

I think many people say "an historic" but do pronounce the H.

No?

impudent strumpet said...

Do they? I assumed they were saying "an" because they were dropping the H.

If they're keeping the H, that's even more perverted.