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I am very fond of a friend, an historian, who independently discovered the algorithm to do multiplications by hand. Really, he had forgotten the trick after years of computers, calculators and first-digit approximations, and when at age 30 he found it, he urgently called me to ask if the method of decomposing 26354*336=((26354*3)*100)+((26354*3)*10)+(26354*6)*1 was known.

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>>8261011
>an historian

>>8261013
w-what?

>>8261017
Is English not your native language or what?

>>8261013
'an historian' is actually considered acceptable for some reason

>>8261065

Silent 'h" pronunciation perhaps?

>>8261065
Because some people (especially a few hundred years ago) drop(ed) the h, so it becomes "an 'istorian". For some reason people who pronounce the h still say "an historian".

Was talking about this to a mathematician friend of mine the other day. Recall him saying, 'if you don't laugh, you'll cry'.

>>8261065
Strangely, "an European" isn't.

>>8261106
>especially a few hundred years ago
You mean 2 thousand.

"Historian" is an adaptation of the Greek "Ιστοριkός" which is spelled "ee - sto -ree - kos".

I guess the h was supposed to be silent in the first place but the english pronunciation is clearer with a strong h.

>>8261136
Extra strange when you consider European is AN eight letter word with five vowels.