'owever, "an historic" is more historic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-dropping#H-insertion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-dropping#H-insertion The silent

'owever, "an historic" is more historic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-dropping#H-insertion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-dropping#H-insertion The silent h is because words like this were originally French. Victorians started pronouncing the h again.