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"an historic" is wrong and terrible if you pronounce the "h"
"A historical" does sound a lot like "ahistorical" when spoken out loud.
Just an observation I just made.
Not in my accent. I would pronounce the first 'a' as /ə/ and the second as /eɪ/.
I just saw a video from an etymologist about just this! Apparently the H used to be pronounced different a couple hundred years ago, and it's a carry over from that.
I was just recording me reading from a book. At a certain point, that sentence appears. An historical... Me, to myself: fuck it, I won't read that n.
Could you elaborate? I'm dumb.
According to my pet peeve, this looks fine? I just scrolled past a meme that said something like "download a ISO" and I was like gah, no, it's AN ISO.