AN HABITUAL CRIMINAL.
Mr. Chapman gave us on Wednesday quit;| an attractive rule whereby we refer to ''a history, where the accent is 011 the first syllable, but "an" historian, with the accent on the second syllable, but I am afraid that most people will refuse to subscribe to hi.- rule, and will accept his savin r clause, that "a" i s often used in both cases. Thus nobody spoke of the first session of Parliament thin year as ''an'' historic session: it was always "a historic session, and at the opposite end of the very column in which his letter appears the secretary of the League for Penal Reform speaks twice of "a" habitual criminal, the very term that inspired my question on Tuesday. I wonder if anyone can justify the use of "an" unique occasion, the other peculiar expression which I questioned. GRAMMARIAN".
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 181, 1 August 1936, Page 8
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