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In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 21 Mar 96 16:45:47 PST."
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 17:05:36 PST
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <199603220045.QAA00471@freefall.freebsd.org> you write:
>  ..."hex" doesn't start with a vowel

Ah, but "webster a" says, among other things,

|usage In speech and writing a is used before a consonant sound  <a
|     door>   <a human>  Before a vowel sound an is usual  <an icicle>
|     <an honor>  but esp. in speech a is used occasionally, more
|     often in some dialects than in others  <a apple>   <a hour>   <a
|     obligation>  Before a consonant sound represented by a vowel letter
|     a is usual  <a one>   <a union>  but an also occurs though less
|     frequently now than formerly  <an unique>   <such an one>  Before
|     unstressed or weakly stressed syllables with initial h both
|     a and an are used in writing  <a historic>   <an historic>  but
|     in speech an is more frequent whether \h\ is pronounced or not.
|     In the King James Version of the Old Testament and occasionally
|     in writing and speech an is used before h in a stressed syllable
|  
|    <an huntress>   <an hundred>   <children are an heritage of the
|     Lord -- Ps 127:3(AV)>   

(Not to say that I think you should change it back, but it was arguably
correct to begin with)

  Bill