Little question – a/an

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Little question – a/an

What is more correct? 1. Open a Topman store in Israel. 2. Open an Topman store in Israel. At first I thought that the first option is correct, but after I asked some friends of mine, they said that "Open *an* Topman..." sounds a lot better... So please help me here

 

[אישה אישה אישה]

a Topman store.

an is incorrect/

 

[אוהד אסטון]

"an" is for words that start with aeiou...

I think that this is the simplest rule in English...

 

[Emc2]

and sometimes H

 

[ArieIO5]

Only if it's silent

 

[Emc2]

sure about that?

can't say it's silent in "hisotry" for example...

 

[ArieIO5]

That's right

... which is percisely why you say "a history", rather than "an". The thing about words that begin with a silent H, like "honor", "honesty", "heir", etc., is that because you cannot hear the consonant, it sounds as if it were a word that starts with a vowel, and so it is treated like such.​