Talk:James A. O'Gorman

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Is the grave accent in "O`Gorman" actually correct, or should this article be changed to "O'Gorman"?

The latter. Moving. Thanks. -- Schaefer 06:19, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"A" vs. "an"

@Billmckern: it is a well-known grammatic rule that vowel-sounds are preceded by "an" rather than "a". Your assertion that we must adhere by an apparent typo that an United States Senate publication made is wrong.

Merriam Webster will explain: https://www.merriam-webstaer.com/words-at-play/is-it-a-or-an

"United" begins with a vowel sound. Therefore "an" is the proper indefinite article to precede it. SecretName101 (talk) 22:28, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@SecretName101: Read the cited sources. If the United States Senate doesn't know how to refer to a United States Senator, no one does. It's A, not AN. Billmckern (talk) 22:32, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Billmckern: English grammar is what we are discussing, and Merriam Webster is a rather definitive source on that subject. SecretName101 (talk) 03:46, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps in this instance the y-sound would be considered a consonant though, so perhaps a is indeed correct. SecretName101 (talk) 03:49, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Common name

Regarding the move of this page, James A. O'Gorman (57%) and James O'Gorman (38%) are the only iterations of O'Gorman's name that constitute over 5% of references to him on newspapers.com. Star Garnet (talk) 05:11, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]