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Comment by swiftcoder

2 months ago

In British English the "an" is correct, even though most English dialects don't actually render the H as silent. It's a French-derived word that had a silent H originally, ergo we use "an".

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NuclearPM  2 months ago

That’s ridiculous. British people have been butchering English for far too long.

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