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  • #61
    Originally posted by Tingkai
    The New York Times stylebook and the Webster dictionary and the Encarta dictionary all say write "a historical" not an historical.
    From the News Limited Style Guide

    a and an. Pronunciation is the guide, so it is a hotel and a history book,a NATO contingent, but an RAN ship or an NEC television set. A special case is a NSW man, because most people read the initials as New South Wales
    I don't know what I am - Pekka

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    • #62
      Originally posted by Winston
      I hate you.

      I don't know what I am - Pekka

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      • #63
        I seem to have slipped there.

        I'll try to ignore you more in the future, ok?

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