This is almost inexplicable
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You're talking dialect. Most people say "a" before a breathy H, but "an" before a silent H. Which is why people will say "a heroine" but "an herb" or "a house" but "an hour".
That's always the issue between dialect and written English. When it comes to the letter h and "a vs an" it's a fierce battle. That's not an issue with words like "bathroom" that start with a "b".
Do you have any example of a b word that is preceded by a "an"?
H is different. It gets a lot of confusion in English so it doesn't work as an example.
I would agree with 99% of this, England's dialect has this as 'a herb' (hard 'h'), I think from when the weak 'h' came from the French and we cast it aside in a fit of patriotism.
Even though I sound 'herb' with a hard 'h', I still use 'an' in front of it, I grew up in the SE of the UK.
Plenty of people don't bother though. Grammar is now a lost art here.
The rule is AN before words beginning with vowels, or vowel sounds, and A before consonants. AN hour because the H is silent and you get a vowel sound, but A Hotel because you sound the H.
But the main point is there is no confusion with "b" words. No one confuses "an bathroom". Even the grammar checker on this site marks it as an error when I type this comment.
I don't see the point of analysing this mistake, in this context. It's not like she's Q and typos happen to the best of us.
I see what you mean. Hm... "an hero" is a tough one because that is a common mistake. I feel like with comms you want to use things that have low odds of being a "mistake".
Like Comey and Corney. Odds of a mistake are impossible since spell checker would change it to "corny" not "corney".