Subj : Food for Thought
To   : Ardith Hinton
From : Anton Shepelev
Date : Wed Jan 30 2019 17:25:24

Ardith Hinton to Paul Quinn:

AH> I also hope somebody will have noticed that I used
AH> "a"... not "an"... with "one-eyed".

What is unusual about it?  "one" starts with a sound that
has a good contrast with, a seques comfortably from, a
vowel.  Similarly, we do not say "What an wonderful world".
It is an hunderd times more lip- and ear-straining.

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