Obama and indefinite articles

[Wilson Gray]

Whoa! The country has made a horrible, horrible, horrible mistake! Yet
another chief executive with an incomplete command of the English
language! When are we going to learn?

-Wilson

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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-Mark Twain



On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Bradley A. Esparza <baesparza at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Watching President-elect Obama speak I just heard him say
> "....*a*international....", not 'an'. <ay>
> Bradley A. Esparza
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> "You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think." Dorothy
> Parker, when asked to use the word 'horticulture' in a sentence.
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