On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 10:52:23AM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 07:05:54PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:58:59AM -0800, James A. Treacy wrote: > > > Can you at least tell us the preferred form for English? > > > > "the Hurd" is the correct form. > > "Are you THE Zaphod Beeblebrox", asked the pink winged creature. > "No, I'm just A Zaphod Beeblebrox. Didn't you hear I come in 6 packs now?" > - Slightly paraphrased from Restaurant at the End of the Universe, > Douglas Adams. > > Of course, standard English says that any word starting with 'h' should > be considered to have started with a vowel for grammatical purposes. > > "I run an Hurd system, you run an hurd...."
I don't think that this is correct. 'An' is used before a word if it sounds like starting with a vowel. E.g. "I should be done in AN hour", "I have A horse". Quoting from webster under the defition for herd. 1: to assemble or move in a herd ^ IANA-Linguist. > > -- > I am a Unitarian *Universalist* - RUAUU2? =) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.