The CAAer's Mini Guide to Proper Punctuation and Grammatical Greatness

[Mithrandir]

*notices "Literacy Cat" is sitting on Nihongo texts*

*decides not to mention it*

[termyt]

Sounding more vowel-like doesn't change the fact that the sound is a consonant.

But it does change whether you use an "a" or an "an" before it. Using “aâ€

[Mithrandir]

[quote="termyt"]But it does change whether you use an "a" or an "an" before it. Using “aâ€

[Nate]

Actually...

While "an Hero" is regarded as a grammatical error by modern linguists, usage of the quantifier "an" before words that started with a morpheme of the pattern CV that began with a 'h' in the onset was common usage before the 17th century.

But thou complying with thy princely wrath, Hast shamed an Hero whom themselves the Gods Delight to honour ... [Cowper's translation of Homer, about 1790]