(May 18, 2015 at 11:18 am)Stimbo Wrote: Um, I pointed out the convention involving stressed syllables a little while ago. While you quite correctly expanded the reasons, it's not quite correct to say nobody explained it.
It has nothing to do with stressed syllables. It has to do with whether the word begins with a vowel sound or not. Again, see:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/...oric-event
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.