Comment on Anon takes a DNA test

• Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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    • ikka@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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      • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ok thank God, I thought I was going crazy for a second. This is the rule I follow and I had a moment where I thought maybe I’d been wrong my entire life.

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    • Pandantic@midwest.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • gnu@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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