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is it wrong to say "an hotel" Fri Jan 11, 2008 18:54 pm  is it wrong to say "an hotel"
 

just wonder if it is grammatically correct to say"
"I had been living in an hotel for some days before I left..."
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is it wrong to say "an hotel" Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:10 pm  is it wrong to say "an hotel"
 

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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is it wrong to say "an hotel" Fri Jan 18, 2008 16:37 pm  is it wrong to say "an hotel"
 

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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is it wrong to say "an hotel" Fri Jan 18, 2008 17:41 pm  is it wrong to say "an hotel"
 

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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is it wrong to say "an hotel" Fri Jan 18, 2008 19:23 pm  is it wrong to say "an hotel"
 

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".

PS
The letter H is a consonant
The letter O (for example) is a vowel.

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...I see
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