Talk:uniform
Latest comment: 17 years ago by Stephen G. Brown in topic Ununiformed?
An uniform[edit]
I've seen the word "an" used before the word uniform from a historical document. This leads me to believe that the pronunciation used to be "oo-nee-form".
In the same document, "an" comes before "hundred", indicating that the H was silent.
- English in the U.S. is a very homogeneous language, but in Britain there are numerous more or less divergent dialects, some not even mutually comprehensible with others. In some dialects of British English even today, words written with an initial "h" are pronounced without an "h", and sometimes words that begin with a vowel have an "h" sound inserted. The writer that you are referring to was obviously a speaker of some such English dialect. —Stephen 01:40, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
Ununiformed?[edit]
Is Ununiformed the opposite of uniformed?
- No. The opposite would be "not in uniform", "out of uniform", "in civilian clothes", etc. —Stephen 22:57, 25 January 2007 (UTC)