an historic; an hotel

[Castiel]

Just to confuse matters....Using An before a H used to be convention, many many years ago......

 

[Morbius]

PMSL, where on earth do you come up with guff like that?

It's called Rebracketing

 

[Bill101]

Just to confuse matters....Using An before a H used to be convention, many many years ago......

It is all the fault of the French!, they tend not to sound the 'H' and so the upper classes fell in with them, whether this was due to 1066 or just later Victorian elitism I'm not sure