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by G Walker - 24/08/26 06:52 PM
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Been away for a while and I don’t mean just while the site was down! Thought at first that I’d been locked out cos I was delinquent! Ashamed to see that it’s three years since my last post!  Still have the same Morgan, still loving it but other things occupied me in the interim. Anyway.........nice to be back. Neil.
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Crikey Neil, you must have been having some REALLY good fun to have gone A.W.O.L. for 3 years. Is there a book pending??
Here for a good time not a long time!!
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I would say an hiatus. "An" is used before a word beginning H if the first syllable of that word isn't stressed. So, for instance, "a history book" but "an historic occasion".
Doing a quick Google search I see this is now considered a convention rather than a rule and interestingly I notice that my grammar checker wants to change the two instances of "an" above to "a".
Welcome back, by the way.
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I would say an hiatus. "An" is used before a word beginning H if the first syllable of that word isn't stressed. So, for instance, "a history book" but "an historic occasion".
Doing a quick Google search I see this is now considered a convention rather than a rule and interestingly I notice that my grammar checker wants to change the two instances of "an" above to "a".
Welcome back, by the way. I thought the convention was that one used 'an' when the word originated from French, where the initial H wasn't pronounced, as in "an Hotel". But as language changes constantly, so the rules change too. Bloody good job, otherwise we'd still be talking like Chaucer...
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There is something wrong with the way Chaucer spoke?  Welcome back Neil 
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There is something wrong with the way Chaucer spoke?  Have you ever tried reading the Canterbury Tales?
In Flaundres whylom was a companye
Of yonge folk, that haunteden folye,
As ryot, hasard, stewes, and tavernes,
Wher-as, with harpes, lutes, and giternes,
They daunce and pleye at dees bothe day and night,
And ete also and drinken over hir might,
Thurgh which they doon the devel sacrifyse
With-in that develes temple, in cursed wyse,
By superfluitee abhominable;
Hir othes been so grete and so dampnable,
That it is grisly for to here hem swere;
Our blissed lordes body they to-tere;
Hem thoughte Iewes rente him noght y-nough;
And ech of hem at otheres sinne lough.
And right anon than comen tombesteres
Fetys and smale, and yonge fruytesteres,
Singers with harpes, baudes, wafereres,
Whiche been the verray develes officeres
To kindle and blowe the fyr of lecherye,
That is annexed un-to glotonye;
The holy writ take I to my witnesse,
That luxurie is in wyn and dronkenesse.
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There is something wrong with the way Chaucer spoke? Quite so Graham. Cue Bill Bailey's pub gag in the style of Geoff Chaucer..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4wzJZdmelA
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Have you ever tried reading the Canterbury Tales?
In Flaundres whylom was a companye
Of yonge folk, that haunteden folye,
As ryot, hasard, stewes, and tavernes,
Wher-as, with harpes, lutes, and giternes,
They daunce and pleye at dees bothe day and night,
And ete also and drinken over hir might,
Thurgh which they doon the devel sacrifyse
With-in that develes temple, in cursed wyse,
By superfluitee abhominable;
Hir othes been so grete and so dampnable,
That it is grisly for to here hem swere;
Our blissed lordes body they to-tere;
Hem thoughte Iewes rente him noght y-nough;
And ech of hem at otheres sinne lough.
And right anon than comen tombesteres
Fetys and smale, and yonge fruytesteres,
Singers with harpes, baudes, wafereres,
Whiche been the verray develes officeres
To kindle and blowe the fyr of lecherye,
That is annexed un-to glotonye;
The holy writ take I to my witnesse,
That luxurie is in wyn and dronkenesse.
Yes Tim, but t'was a long time ago! Nice find Giles, I hadn't seen that before
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Just spent about half-an-an hour watching you tube Bill!
Best Regards
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