Can't answer that, but "an hotel" is correct, because strictly speaking the "h" is silent (French origin eh.)Originally Posted by Highlander
Psyclepath
Can't answer that, but "an hotel" is correct, because strictly speaking the "h" is silent (French origin eh.)
Only a homo puts an engine back together WITHOUT making it go faster.
Pasta farts
This is correct.
H is an exception, basically because it's followed by a vowel, which means you use the an.
An historic event
An horrific mullet
It's time...
Me: "I say, old chap, that's a horrific mullet you have there."
Bogan: "Pardon me, but I believe the indefinite article in that sentence is lacking an 'n'."
Deus ex ukulele
And the word "the", when used before a word starting with a vowel (or an H, or a letter that is pronounced as though it starts with a vowel) is pronounced "thee" rather than "tha".
And then there's always that famous sproting event "women's peers", and standing out like a "spear pruck" at a wedding...
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Average trowel is average!
Whose idea was it to stop teaching us these things at school?
One, two free, floor!
Da gummint
$2,000 cash if you find a buyer for my house, kumeuhouseforsale@straightshooters.co.nz for details
Loud and Uncouth
And that new word 'awyooneed' used on certain TV advertisements.
I think it is implying one does not need much of a certain item.
Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........
" Life is not a rehearsal, it's as happy or miserable as you want to make it"
Loud and Uncouth
Like the 'p' in swimming??
Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........
" Life is not a rehearsal, it's as happy or miserable as you want to make it"
One, two free, floor!
Yup... silent.Like the 'p' in swimming??
If there was ANYTHING that would keep my mouth shut it'd be "p" in my swimming
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Psyclepath
...and another thing: "Grown" is a single bloody syllable, there is no "e" before the "n".
Only a homo puts an engine back together WITHOUT making it go faster.
Deus ex ukulele
The plural of woman, women, is pronounced wimmin.
There is an O in Police.
Secretary is a four-syllable work (if it was pronounced sekatree, it would be spelt that way).
The city at the top of of the South Island, is Nelson, not Nowsin.
A male bovine is a bull, not a buw...
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Loud and Uncouth
And Cromwell is pronounced 'Cromill'
Winding up drongos, foil hat wearers and over sensitive KBers for over 14,000 posts...........
" Life is not a rehearsal, it's as happy or miserable as you want to make it"
The instructions are simple...
An horse? I think not....
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
Psyclepath
An 'orse, an 'orse,
My Kingdom for an 'orse!
Only a homo puts an engine back together WITHOUT making it go faster.
Rest In Peace
Which reminds me while we're on the subject...
French toast is not f*&^g toast, bacon, banana and maple syrup...
And not all french people wanted the Pacific bombed...
We don't surrender it, we own the pussie mate...
We only surrender it if you're really, really a good kisser...apparently!
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