[Gllug] [OT] speaking French in France

[Doug Winter]

John Winters wrote:
> "an data-point"?!  I hope the insane notion of using "an" before any
> word beginning with 'h' hasn't now spread to words beginning with 'd'.

Just to score extra pedantry points (will I win the caravan?), it's not 
any word beginning with 'h', it's words beginning with 'h' that come 
from the french.  That's why it is "an hotel" but not "an horse".

doug.

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