12/13/2023 0 Comments Voynich manuscript solved stackI think it's fair to say that somewhere along the line, the page got swamped by interminable discussion of possibilities to the great detriment of all the factualities involved. Though I've been researching and writing about the Voynich Manuscript for just about a decade now, I haven't been recommending the Wikipedia Voynich page for quite a few years, even though it normally appears at the top of just about any Voynich-related search results. However, a page of Armenian has a somewhat monotonous character, because of the proliferation of mmm and uuu. Neither Armenian or Voynich have letters that resemble A, B, C, D, H, K, R, T, X.Īrmenian shows a great deal of variation between different writers with some making their larger letters with far more loops and curlicues than others. Armenian also has a variety of letters that have a similar form to "mmm", "uuu" and "Both Armenian and Voynich have "O", and letters of similar form to "j", and "y" in their handwritten forms as well as "ɑ", "ŋ" and "ʒ". Like the Voynich alphabet, Armenian has several "&" or "$" shaped letters. Like the Voynich alphabet, Armenian has a variety of "2" and "ʔ" shaped letters, with and without loopy bits. Like the Voynich alphabet has a variety of large Capital "P" shaped letters of varying complexity, some of them struck through. But feel free to make your own choices in this, I'm not your mother. -) Nickpelling ( talk) 22:01, 8 July 2013 (UTC) Personally, I prefer "an" in "an historical" and "an historic" because "ahistoric" and "ahistorical" are also words (even if one of them is a little archaic). 212.95.237.92 ( talk) 15:34, 1 July 2013 (UTC) As I wrote (above) in 2010, both 'a' and 'an' are technically correct: a/an historian, a/an hotelier, a/an hysterical punchline, a/an hereditary condition, etc. I for one certainly do talk like that, as do many other moderately educated middle-aged Britons. See for example Fowler's Modern English Usage for a fuller discussion. Varlaam ( talk) 17:46, 16 October 2010 (UTC) Utter piffle. That sounds better and is grammatically correct. contribs) 16:08, 23 June 2010 (UTC) When the initial syllable with 'h' is unstressed, then it is always correct to drop the 'h' sound and use 'an'.Anyway, I put "an historical" into the page first, so my original choice of two equals should stand. -) -Preceding unsigned comment added by Nickpelling ( talk Syzygy ( talk) 06:56, 23 June 2010 (UTC) Hi Elmar, both "a" and "an" can indeed be used, but given that "a historical" is so close to "ahistorical" I prefer to use the "an" version. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage allows "both a and an are used in writing a historic an historic". I beg to differ with regard to your recent reverts: Hence "an" may be seen in such phrases as "an historic", "an heroic", "an hôtel of excellence", in both British and American usage.
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