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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
Seraph, Vaskez, and Reeka are right. Which is why I think "an historic" only applies when you pronounce the "h" in historic.
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In the US the way it works is as follows. "a hotel, a historic, etc." is used for words where the 'h' is asperated. However, for words where the 'h' is not asperated "an heir, an hour, etc." then 'an' is used.
"an historic" has to do with the (British?) pronunciation of historic as "iss tor ic".
[ 04-28-2003, 02:25 AM: Message edited by: Seraph ]