usage ridicule

[James Harbeck]

I'm coming a bit late to this -- I don't manage to read this list
closely these days -- but I did a little light research on "a/an
historic" a few years ago and there are some data and historical
details that might be useful on this in it:
http://sesquiotic.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/an-historical-usage-trend-a-historical-usage-trend-part-1/

The intro is in HTML but all the good data is in the PDF. Too much of
a pain in the ass to set it all up in HTML.

James Harbeck.

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