"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 sound). Its the same as you wouldn't say "I hear an hissing noise", or "I just learned an History Lesson". Words prefixed with the sound "HISS" should be prefixed with "A" in my mind, unless the H is silent, like Honor or Honest. However, that said, it'd also probably depend on what the sentence is going to be describing. "I went to a historical event" leaves a bad taste in my mouth, while "I went to an historical event" feels better, because I think the E in Event carries over to the "AN", or, it could be a past vs present meaning of the sentence. But if I say "I've just learned a historical lesson", the "L" sound in Lesson doesn't carry over correctly to "AN". Let me be clear I'm not saying you're wrong or right, just that, in my head and my syntax when I write sentences, anything that begins with H would end up having an "A" prefix. I don't use the word Historical or History all that often, so I can't say how I've written it out in the past. That said, the point of the sentence is presented whether "AN" or "A" is used, in my opinion. This is going down the lines of (Dare I say) is it ESS-QUE-EL or "SEEK-WIL". In my case, if I were to read that entire paragraph, I probably wouldn't even blink on "... an historical oversight ..." or "... a historical oversight ...". On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 12:16 PM Jose Isaias Cabrera <jic...@outlook.com> wrote: > > 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 funny. > > "an historical oversight" is the correct English syntax, by the way. ;-) > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
