On Jul 12, 2019, at 10:16 AM, Jose Isaias Cabrera <[email protected]> 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 English syntax, by the way. ;-)
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.
https://amzn.to/2xJW65R
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