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From: plaskon@hplabsc.UUCP (Dawn Plaskon)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Question about "an"
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Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 18:31:55 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  9 18:31:55 1984
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As with other soft "h" words the "h" is barely pronounced, so 
an is the appropriate article.  Thus an historic would be 
pronounced an i-stor-ik, an honest would be an o-nest.  In
thinking about it, I believe that I do pronounce the h in
historic but with very little stress.