The Antenna, Tenzing and A or An Historic

Well, just a couple of quick updates to post, and then a question inviting comments.

The antenna man was held up at work and hasn't returned yet!  We had a few dropouts watching the T20 cricket on "One" last night, but it wasn't terminal and we got to see all of the match.  For those unaware, Wednesday Nights are One's T20 cricket nights, and they will be replaying some earlier T20 games each Wednesday night during summer.  As a diehard fan in the non-ratings period, this seems like a great service to us viewers.

The Wife LOVES the name Tenzing.  The rabbit even LOOKS like Tenzing:

So I think we've struck a win there, thank you Balmain Boy!

Finally, I've been having an extended conversation on Facebook (me and quite a few others) re the usage of A or An as an article in front of a soft h.  A user pointed out that Channel 10 News used the expression "An Historic Occasion..." and that was a grammatical error.  I went into bat for Channel 10 and said with a soft "h" at the start, the article "an" was correct.  Naturally we have gotten nowhere, although research has shown Stephen Murray-Smith is on my side, and in any case my contention is "an historic" is not wrong, NOT "a historic" is not right.  Doing a Google Search universally gives 32% to "An" and 68% to "A".  But if you choose the domain .au, there were 139,000 hits for "An Historic" just shading "A Historic" which came in at 138,000.   So in this country we're dead on 50/50 (Well, almost. Probably by the same margin Federal Elections are decided!)

Anyone want to add their 2c worth?  I've read MOST of the Google results on this, so I'm really interested in what you guys have to say rather than technical grammatical analyses.