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Why we say an historical but a history [duplicate] Closed 13 years ago Possible Duplicate: When should I use “a” versus “an” in front of a word beginning with the letter h? Why do we say an historical but a history? This question was originally posed by @shanselman on Twitter
History of have a good one - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The term "have a good day" was the phrase of the times Everyone used it, I had to hear it so many times during the course of the day that I nearly went mad with the boredom of the phrase So, after a while I started to return "Have a good day" with "Have A Good One" meaning have a good whatever got you off
What is the origin of the phrase Top of the morning to you? Here "the top of the morning" again means "the beginning of the day"—although it is not clear from the context whether this is synonymous with "dawn" or some other marker of the earliest hour of the day
Etymology of history and why the hi- prefix? This question is a tad backwards, because looking at the etymology, it's rather clear that it's not a prefix that was added to form "history", but rather a part of the word was lost to form "story" Why that happened, however, is not obvious, so it's still a fair question to ask
1st hour, 2nd hour, 3rd hour. . . But how to say zero-th hour? The case you gave is interesting, where it is an exception to the schedule for one day to have an additional hour before the hour labeled 'first' To call it 'zeroth' hour would be strange (perfectly recognizable and used by any math geek, but there it is) But then what is the hour that comes before that?
Where did Im Jonesing get its meaning from? The New Oxford American Dictionary has “Origin 1960’s: said to come from Jones Alley, in Manhattan, associated with drug addicts ” Some online sources dispute the claim and attribute it to Great Jones Street
grammaticality - When should I use a versus an in front of a word . . . Both "a history" and "a historian" begin with an H sound If you slur it into 'istorian, then I would use "an" in spoken sentences (but as that's an incorrect pronunciation anyway you should definitely write it as "a historian "