If the purpose of using 'an' before a vowel sound is to help speech flow more freely, why do we use 'an' before a sounded 'h'? Surely this defeats the purpose? If I allow myself to be somewhat...
'Crowd in tears as one man shot dead in tragedy' and other similar headlines appeared in the UK press in the 1990's but there was no murder enquiry. Why was this?
I remember on some quiz show many moons ago the host gave the term used to denote the insertion of one word between the syllables of another (as in the title of this question). I can't find any...