Not to be argumentative with Keith, as I'm have the sinking feeling that
slitting my own throat would be a more pleasurable experience. But, here it
goes:
A *lexicon* is a list of words that belong to a particular language.
Sometimes, *lexicon* is used as another word for *thesaurus* (see below)
>> I can highly recommend the book “Word by Word: The Secret Life of
>> Dictionaries,” written by one of the editors at Merriam-Webster.
>> The author spends much of her book illustrating why prescriptivist
>> approaches to language are doomed to failure.
Merriam-Webster does not publish a
Warren Young, on Friday, July 12, 2019 12:53 PM, wrote...
>
> On Jul 12, 2019, at 10:16 AM, Jose Isaias Cabrera, on
> > "an historical oversight" is the correct English syntax, by the way. ;-)
>
> I can highly recommend the book “Word by Word: The Secret Life of
> Dictionaries,” written by one
Folks, lets return to charter, please. DRH is writing the document. He gets
to pick the language to be used. You want something else, write your own.
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Note here "AN H", not "A H", because when saying "H", it starts with a
vowel sound
Re: Aitch vs. Haitch:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2013/nov/04/letter-h-contentious-alphabet-history-alphabetical-rosen
On Fri, 12 Jul 2019, Stephen Chrzanowski wrote:
"an historical
"an historical oversight" feels dirty to me, mostly because it's an
incomplete sentence and can be understood in different ways. It's a
"point", or answer to a question.
In my verbage, "historical" begins with an H (Note here "AN H", not "A H",
because when saying "H", it starts with a vowel
On Jul 12, 2019, at 10:16 AM, Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote:
>
>>> Here in the Southeastern US (specifically in Charlotte, NC) we really
>>> do say "an historical oversight". If you said "a historical
>>> oversight", people would look at you funny.
>
> "an historical oversight" is the correct
Warren Young, on Thursday, July 11, 2019 03:13 PM, wrote...
>
> On Jul 11, 2019, at 10:41 AM, Richard Hipp, on
> >
> > Here in the Southeastern US (specifically in Charlotte, NC) we really
> > do say "an historical oversight". If you said "a historical
> > oversight", people would look at you
On 2019-07-11 2:31 PM, Carl Edquist wrote:
Ginger tells me that "a historical" is technically correct,
AFAICT, "an historical" is correct iff the "h" in "historical" is silent.
Eg, "It's an 'istorical oversight to pronounce the 'h' in 'historical'."
From the New Oxford American Dictionary
Ginger tells me that "a historical" is technically correct,
AFAICT, "an historical" is correct iff the "h" in "historical" is silent.
Eg, "It's an 'istorical oversight to pronounce the 'h' in 'historical'."
On Thu, 11 Jul 2019, Richard Hipp wrote:
On 7/11/19, David Raymond wrote:
Section
On Jul 11, 2019, at 10:41 AM, Richard Hipp wrote:
>
> Here in the Southeastern US (specifically in Charlotte, NC) we really
> do say "an historical oversight". If you said "a historical
> oversight", people would look at you funny.
… :)
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On 7/11/19, David Raymond wrote:
> Section 5:
> "Due to an historical oversight"
> Due to [a] historical oversight
>
Here in the Southeastern US (specifically in Charlotte, NC) we really
do say "an historical oversight". If you said "a historical
oversight", people would look at you funny.
On 7/11/19, David Raymond wrote:
> Section 5:
> "Due to an historical oversight"
> Due to [a] historical oversight
>
Here in the Southeastern US (specifically in Charlotte, NC) we really
do say "an historical oversight". If you said "a historical
oversight", people would look at you funny.
)
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Sorry. This was in the Quirks, Caveats page, #2.
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 9:57 AM Don V Nielsen wrote:
>
Sorry. This was in the Quirks, Caveats page, #2.
On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 9:57 AM Don V Nielsen wrote:
> " An application interact with the database engine using function calls,
> not be sending messages to a separate process or thread."
>
> "An applications [interacts] ..., [not by]...
>
>
>
" An application interact with the database engine using function calls,
not be sending messages to a separate process or thread."
"An applications [interacts] ..., [not by]...
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