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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: mr.mark who wrote (1652)12/30/1998 7:25:00 PM
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It depends on pronunciation. If you're British, or pretending to be, or if you simply tend to suppress the initial "h", "an historic" makes perfect sense. If you use the American hard "h", it doesn't. In writing it's an open question, but it is probably best to write it as you would say it.

Steve
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