usage ridicule

[Jonathan Lighter]

A CNN pundit gently ridiculed Newt Gingrich for saying "a historical"
instead of "an historical."

I was once ridiculed in print for writing "an historical" instead of "a
historical."

Can't we all just get along?

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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