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bigstrat2003today at 2:36 AM2 repliesview on HN

I feel the same way about "an homage". The H is normally pronounced on "homage" - for example, you would not say "pay homage to" with the faux-French pronunciation. So you therefore would say "a homage". It sounds so pretentious when people pronounce it the other way.


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vulcan01today at 3:20 AM

Words are often pronounced differently in English depending on whether they are being used in a noun or verb context.

e.g. attribute, increase, conduct

s3grahamtoday at 3:19 AM

I think that's one regional. It'd be super weird to pronounce the h in homage in most of Canada ime.