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Very well:
There is still some divergence of opinion over which form of the indefinite article should be used before words that begin with h- and have an unstressed first syllable. In the 18th and 19th centuries people often did not pronounce the initial h for these words, and so an was commonly used. Today the h is pronounced, and so it is logical to use a rather than an. However, the indefinite article an is still encountered before the h in both British and American English, particularly with historical: in the Oxford English Corpus around a quarter of examples of historical are preceded with an rather than a
Accordingly, as the "h" is pronounced, let us use the correct article. And yes, this is English. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ondundozonananandana ( talk • contribs) 20:38, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
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Very well:
There is still some divergence of opinion over which form of the indefinite article should be used before words that begin with h- and have an unstressed first syllable. In the 18th and 19th centuries people often did not pronounce the initial h for these words, and so an was commonly used. Today the h is pronounced, and so it is logical to use a rather than an. However, the indefinite article an is still encountered before the h in both British and American English, particularly with historical: in the Oxford English Corpus around a quarter of examples of historical are preceded with an rather than a
Accordingly, as the "h" is pronounced, let us use the correct article. And yes, this is English. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ondundozonananandana ( talk • contribs) 20:38, 5 January 2018 (UTC)