A historic or an historic?

Its 'an harse' you ignoramus.

Sorry, I'm an ypocrite.

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.”


― James D. Nicoll

I'm aware of people trying to sound posh by saying "an hotel", I'm sure Hyacinth Bucket would say that. If you are voting for 'an historic', would you also say an hotel, to stay consistent? Or is it only the word 'historic ' that gets the treatment?

Here you go chaps.

www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-it-a-or-an#:~:text=The%20reason%20for%20this%20is,H%20of%20these%20two%20words).

errm, apologies.  It's an American dictionary.  What's a boy to do?

EDIT: I give up.  Just copy paste it.

For me it's 'a hotel', but 'an hotel' is understandable insofar as it comes directly from the French "hostel" (un hôtel). 

It's interesting that we don't carry over the same logic for hôpital, but always call it 'a hospital'.  

The Welsh rendition 'ysbyty' has to be admired though.