"An historic" is a venerable mistake that some people insist on preserving.
It would seem that at some point in the 1800s in Britain certain speakers started dropping the 'h' from the pronunciation of 'history', 'historic'. At least, this is the only justification for saying and writing 'an historic', 'an historical'. But these were educated people, not people speaking some regional dialect where initial 'h' was dropped regularly.
This is copied and pasted from one of many websites stating that some brits do in fact drop the h.
Well that is one of many websites that's wrong, or certainly misleading as to the prevalence of dropping the 'h' in Britain.
I never hear 'an historic' here in England, or 'an history', or 'an historical'. I never see it written that way and as I say, the only times I've noticed 'an historic' being used is in America. I can imagine some people in Northern counties like Yorkshire dropping the 'h' and saying 'an 'istoric', but that's a feature of dialect rather than the standard.
Is it normal how i say herb?
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"An historic" is a venerable mistake that some people insist on preserving.
It would seem that at some point in the 1800s in Britain certain speakers started dropping the 'h' from the pronunciation of 'history', 'historic'. At least, this is the only justification for saying and writing 'an historic', 'an historical'. But these were educated people, not people speaking some regional dialect where initial 'h' was dropped regularly.
This is copied and pasted from one of many websites stating that some brits do in fact drop the h.
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Well that is one of many websites that's wrong, or certainly misleading as to the prevalence of dropping the 'h' in Britain.
I never hear 'an historic' here in England, or 'an history', or 'an historical'. I never see it written that way and as I say, the only times I've noticed 'an historic' being used is in America. I can imagine some people in Northern counties like Yorkshire dropping the 'h' and saying 'an 'istoric', but that's a feature of dialect rather than the standard.
I've lived all over Britain all my life.