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Silic0n_Alph4@lemmy.world 11 months agoknowyourmeme.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.
Actual_Idiot@midwest.social 11 months ago
isn’t “an hero” technically correct? It sounds weird, but it is not grammatically wrong.
ikka@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months 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.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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.
Pandantic@midwest.social 11 months ago
Not unless you’re Dick Van Dyke doing cockney, it’s not.
gnu@lemmy.zip 11 months 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.