usage ridicule

[Larry Sheldon]

On 3/26/2012 7:13 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
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> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Exactly! Gingrich is one of the great assholes of all time and the

I guess I should have known that I was joining a pit full of academics,
but for some foolish reason I thought maybe there would be some civility
here.

Silly me.  I never learn.  I'll just have to take my love of words on
the road again.  Searching.  Searching.

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