An Historic Day!!
Hard to believe it was 13 years ago today that The Simpsons premiered on Fox. Check out the Official Site or another great Simpsons site. I still think Fox’s greatest contribution to television was Get A Life though!!
6 comments December 17 2002 8:12 am | Pepperguy | Grant
Get a life sucked.
I think you mean “A Historic Day”
Get a Life ruled…and I DEFINITELY mean AN historic day.
Maybe if you pronounced it “An ‘istoric Day” I’d accept that.
Who am I kidding? I’d except anything, as I could care less.
I’m not even going to justify that with a response. Wait…I just responded. DAMN!
Here is one Virginia Tech professor’s opinion:
Q. When is the article “a” versus “an” used?
Use “a” before a consonant sound.
“An” before a vowel sound. (The “n” in “an” prevents a speaker from pausing in trying to pronounce two successive vowel sounds.)
Consonant:
“One of a class of speech sounds characterized by constriction or closure at one or more points in the breath channel.”
Vowel:
“One of a class of speech sounds in the articulation of which the oral part of the breath channel is not blocked and is not constricted enough to cause audible friction.”
Examples:
a one-man show
a unit (The long “u” causes friction.)
a heavy load
an historic moment (The “hi” sound causes no friction.)
an honest man