“A historian ” or “an historian”?

Sometimes Rad Geek People’s Daily [radgeek.com] gets reader questions. Here is the latest from my feedback form: “You need your cop dad. Your cop dad keeps the lights on and the bad guys away from your doorstep. Do you really want anarchy? Do you really want to live in a world without law and order (the” . . . I — I never had a cop dad. *weeping, swelling after-school special music*

The X Files S01E20. Darkness Falls.

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“Officer-involved shooting leaves 1 dead” http://ift.tt/1MHbtND Normally, people who write newspaper headlines are notorious for removing any word thta they could possibly cut, often to the point of making what they write ambiguous or downright cryptic.* Not always, though. You ever notice how far a newspaper writer will go out of their way, just to avoid writing “Police killed a man” in so many words?