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Originally posted by Reeka:
The reverse of that, is if you are a person the pronounces the word "herb" with a silent h, you would say an herb.
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Have you noticed some people say 'an historic' when they enunciate the h sound? I've heard a lot of newsreaders do that. It sounds weird, especially newsreaders because by virtue of being newsreaders they articulate each sound more clearly than just people speaking normally, so the /n/ and the /h/ don't sort of run into each other but are both 'hard' sounds. And yet you don't hear them saying for instance 'an human' or 'an hitman' or 'an hissing sound'.