A User or An User?

[Sean Brierley]

A historical and a herb seem to me to be correct.

A horse for a course, I suppose.

Cheers,

Sean


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Since "an historical" is still correctly used in American-English, at
least in certain elevated sorts of contexts and as we don't really have
a hard rule about the usage, I would say that using "an historical"
would yield less controversy than using "a historical."  I don't know
about pronouncing the aitch in "herb" though.  That's just weird.