Don't know about current usage, but it used to be an hotel (pronouncing the
h), but I can't think of any other words where 'an' precedes a prounounced
'h'.
Some UK accents make deciding what's been said quite difficult when the 'n'
from an tends to be run into the next word. Taking the aluminium helmets
email as an example, some accents would sound like "a naluminium foil
helmet" or "a nempirical study" with short 'a' and very slight pause between
the 'a' and 'n'.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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