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Even Carney makes grammar mistakes (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I noticed that he says 'an historic honor' at 2:43. I know it's silly to point this out, but I didn't expect this from a native English speaker, and presumably an intelligent one given his credentials. They need to run his speeches through autocorrect ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm not questioning his abilities as the prime minister, but I'm just slightly disappointed. As citizens, we should always criticize people in power. If they're intelligent than the average, criticize them even more fiercely! Anyhoo, I'll brace for the downvotes lol.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Ha. Tell me you don't read much without telling me you don't read much.

Language is a bit more complicated than primary school telling you "an" goes before vowels and "a" goes before consonants. It's about the sounds made not the letters, and H goes both ways regularly.

An honest man vs a hateful one.

And you can have vowels with "a" too!: a uniform, a useful idiot, etc.

Merriam-Webster specifically calls out "historic" as going both ways depending on the speaker.

Your "gotcha" got you.