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Hi Kwfine,
The article that is used before the word hotel is "a". So you can say "I had been staying at a hotel....".
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| Fri Jan 18, 2008 16:37 pm is it wrong to say "an hotel" |
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| Torsten wrote: | Hi Kwfine,
The article that is used before the word hotel is "a". So you can say "I had been staying at a hotel....". |
Thanks for the help, Torsten!
I learnt from an article that some people write an hotel instead a hotel, because they think the letter h in "hotel" is consonant.
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| Fri Jan 18, 2008 17:41 pm is it wrong to say "an hotel" |
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I think most native speakers of English pronounce the H in hotel, and therefore they also use 'a'.
I think only the (few) people who drop the H sound and pronounce the word hotel as o-tel would say "an hotel".
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The letter H is a consonant
The letter O (for example) is a vowel.
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| Fri Jan 18, 2008 19:23 pm is it wrong to say "an hotel" |
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| Yankee wrote: | I think most native speakers of English pronounce the H in hotel, and therefore they also use 'a'.
I think only the (few) people who drop the H sound and pronounce the word hotel as o-tel would say "an hotel".
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The letter H is a consonant
The letter O (for example) is a vowel.
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...I see
Thanks Yankee!
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