He is a 'Gay'!

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If you're going to delete, please delete from here: Jasper Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:55 pm GMT

"He is a gay" makes sense and is more forceful and rude than "he is gay".

Gay is a standard countable noun and does not take a capital letter.

"What about those two gays over by the bar?" makes sense.

"A engineer" is INCORRECT. "An engineer" is correct English. "An" is used before all nouns that have a vowel sound at the beginning.

There you go!

Sorted! :-)

In politically-correct Britain, they aren't "gay", they are are "same-gender attracted."

And people aren't "disabled." They are "differently-abled."

<<In politically-correct Britain, they aren't "gay", they are are "same-gender attracted."

And people aren't "disabled." They are "differently-abled.">>

Why do Britons double copulas? "they are are" just makes no sense.

< "An" is used before all nouns that have a vowel sound at the beginning. >

Is it a or an hotel?

<Likewise, "an historic" did once occur, but I think it is mostly relegated to written English now.>

Not even there is it common. But what happened in the 40s?

WORD- AN HISTORIC
1920s 1
1930s 12
1940s 38
1950s 1
1960s 1
1970s 4
1980s 11
1990s 4
2000s 1
TOT 81

Time magazine.

<Both occur, but "a hotel" is much more common these days.>

When was "a hotel" common?