I use "an honest" (or would I suppose if I ever used it?)

My original point was a style guide. The link I was asked for may exist electronically, I don't know. Presumably subsequent ones do. Hopefully not with the "error." Interesting that people ask for links as if we historically always used screen based stuff. (I would have printed them out anyway if I had...) Presumably many of us do so.

Again, it was used by me on a thread to respond to false piousness with false piousness. Most of what I have published these days, and that's dry medical papers, I use very conversational English. Editors for British Medical Journal etc take grammar at face value, it's more your citations and evidence for them...

I'm delighted to see it drag out into a thread of its own. Icing on the cake😂