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I think my pet peeve is the misuse of the word "an" when used in front of words starting with "h." Example: "an historic occasion."
It's not an historic occasion, it's a historic occasion. H is not a vowel. If the H is pronounced, it's a, not an. You don't say "an harp" or "an horse" do you?
It's my pet peeve because when I say "a historic" I almost ALWAYS get some doof adopting a (not an) holier-than-thou attitude trying to smugly correct my grammar.
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