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• birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Where’d the “an hero” for

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  suicide

  even come from?

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  • Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    knowyourmeme.com/memes/an-hero

    He was such an hero, to take it all away. We miss him so, That you should know, And we honor him this day. He was an hero, to take that shot, to leave us all behind.

    It was 2006: typos made by grieving people had a chance to become memes.

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    • Actual_Idiot@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      isn’t “an hero” technically correct? It sounds weird, but it is not grammatically wrong.

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      • ikka@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What do you mean “not grammatically wrong” ?

        “An” is used before words that start with a vowel.

        An orange. A cop. An easter egg. A yeast overgrowth. etc.

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      • Pandantic@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not unless you’re Dick Van Dyke doing cockney, it’s not.

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      • gnu@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Depends whether you pronounce the H or not. If the way you say it doesn’t differentiate between hero and 'ero then you could use ‘an’ but it’ll appear wrong to others who do pronounce a difference between the two.

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