From the early 1990s until her retirement in 2005, she was the indisputable swing justice
Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court and the justice who held the court’s center for more than a generation, died Friday, the court said in a statement.
Her cause of death was complications related to advanced dementia and a respiratory illness. She was 93.
Chief Justice John Roberts said in a statement that O’Connor “blazed an historic trail as our nation’s first female justice.”
Welcome to the wonderful world of language, where the rules are made up, inconsistent, and know to change with time.
Saying “an historic event” vs “a historic event” is an older way of speaking vs a newer way of speaking
I’m old enough to remember being in school taught “an historic event” as an exception to the “‘an’ if the word starts with a vowel sound, ‘a’ if it starts with a consonant sound.”
Personally I find myself using both versions as it was inconsistent during my education on which was the proper one and which wasn’t.