On 7/31/2015 4:30 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 5:16:13 PM UTC-4, Sal Paradise wrote:
>> On 7/30/2015 3:12 PM, Bruce wrote:
>
>>> Isn't cilantro a herb?
>>
>> The proper pronoun is "an" herb...
>>
>> a's and h's doncha know...
>
> Do you say "an horse"?

No.


> Cindy Hamilton

I say "an Historical event."

http://www.innovateus.net/innopedia/...te-use-instead

The use of ‘a’ or ‘an’ is based on the sound of the first letter used in
a word rather than the written form of the letter. The guideline here
is to use ‘an’ if the first letter has a vowel sound and use ‘a’ if the
first letter makes a consonant sound. If the phonetic representation of
letters is taken into consideration there are actually no exceptions to
the rule. The letter ‘h’ has no sound and the next letter has a vowel
sound, hence ‘an’ is used in front of words such as hour, honor, etc.