Thank you, Brad, M.T., and John for a quick response! I did not know the answer because I've heard both "a" and "an" used in front of "historic". I guess you would only use "an" if you pronounce "historic" with a silent "h".
Carol
--- On Fri, 8/26/11, Brad Layton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Brad Layton <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Grammar Question
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Friday, August 26, 2011, 8:07 PM
Carol, either is "correct." It simply depends on the idiolect of the individual speaking ... specifically, whether that person pronounces the "h" or does not pronounce the "h". I am unaware of any prescriptive case for the superiority of either that would hold water ... or 100 mph winds, for that matter ;) .
-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Morrison <[log in to unmask]>
To: ATEG <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Fri, Aug 26, 2011 6:41 pm
Subject: Grammar Question
A friend just asked me which is correct: "a historic hurricane" or "an historic hurricane"? Can someone help me out here?
Thanks!
Carol
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From: Kathleen Bethell <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Membership in ATEG
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Date: Friday, August 26, 2011, 12:16 PM
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Thank you, Geoff – Amy already got in touch. ATEG folks are wonderful!
Kathi
P.S. I don’t know why the cc didn’t work; the address is correct.
From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Layton
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 10:39 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Membership in ATEG
Kathi - I passed on your question to our president, Amy Benjamin - but I tried to copy you on the message and got an undeliverable message for [log in to unmask]
Geoff Layton
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:19:07 -0400
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Membership in ATEG
To: [log in to unmask]
I never received acknowledgement when I joined, so I am not sure if I am even on the rolls, yet. Is there some way I can check to find out my membership status?
Kathi
Kathleen Bethell
Assistant Professor
Liberal Arts, English
Ivy Tech Community College
200 Daniels Way
Bloomington, IN 47404
From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Amy Benjamin
Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 10:33 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Membership in ATEG
As you know, our hot new ATEG Journals are stacked and stampled in our mailroom (aka my basement) ready to go out to ATEG members. As we now do have a better system of keeping track of, acknowledging, and servicing ATEG members, please consider joining officially.
See www.ateg.org for details, which are, we are happy to report, now accurate!
Membership in ATEG allows you to receive the Journal, published twice yearly, and to keep ATEG as a (nagging) voice to our parent organization, NCTE. We maintain this listserv, our website, and are allowed to host a session at the NCTE annual conference. We also host an annual conference, gathering together all of the educators in the English-speaking, non-English-speaking, and non-speaking world, and non-world who are interested in the teaching of grammar. Thankfully, all of these people can fit easily into one room.
So keep those cards and letters coming!
Amy Benjamin
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