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zombottoday at 4:44 AM1 replyview on HN

In what neck of the woods? English pronunciation never gets boring.


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swiftcodertoday at 7:45 AM

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".