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Originally Posted by GeoffC
The rule, as taught to me, was a noun starting with a vowel uses "AN", otherwise it's "A". The exception being nouns where there is a 'silent' first character - the most obvious one being the "H"..
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That's right, but it's the fact that the first syllable is not stressed that "makes" the "h" silent - you naturally "skip over it" in speech. The "technical" word for missing off a letter in this way is "ellision".