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  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited June 2021
    Keep your guard up otherwise, before you know it, we’ll be growing eggplants, zucchini, cilantro, snow peas, arugula, scallions and rutabaga.
    Rutland, England
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    hatty123 said:
    BenCotto said:
    These days most style guides advocate ‘a’ for aspirated words beginning with h and ‘an’ for the rest
    Is it just me that finds this really irritating? I first noticed this with "an 'otel" when I was in my teenage years (40's now 🙈) and it just seems to be getting more prevalent and spreading to other words. Feels very affectatious to me, since when did we dropped h's in English?
    I totally agree. an 'otel, an 'ospital:  total pretentious nonsense.
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    @BenCotto - eggplants is English, not just American and scallions is a north east England name for spring onions.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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