Booking an hotel. Reviews, do they really help?

An hotel

 

Correct grammar. A hotel, poor grammar, An hotel. Might as well say “ notel “ like going noliday.

I wrote an hotel to be down with the kids innit

 

Ask yourself how Will the Baird would have written it and your lesson can begin. ‘An’ isn’t a proper word!

 

Novel

 

I used to go over a fair bit when we had a factory in Mullingar.
Some of the surrounding area is superb and Dublin is nice during the day. At night it’s a case of dodge the hen / stag do and dodge the Romanian beggars!

 

I wrote it to be contrary

The use of the article "a" or "an" before "hotel" is influenced by the usage (i.e. whether American or British); however the conjecture that the usage of "a hotel" indicates the British is incorrect. There is a predilection for the phrase "an hotel" in the Queen's English when compared with the American usage (the Queen's English being the monastic form of British English). In using the Queen's English, the "h" is pronounced when the word "hotel" is spoken exclusively, but dropped when speaking the phrase "an hotel" (i.e. "an hotel" is pronounced: an o-tel'). This predilection is not sui generis to the word "hotel:" polysyllabic words beginning with "h" (e.g. "historic" and "hypothesis") are similarly phrased (e.g. "an historic") in the Queen's English. Whilst scholars argue the Queen's English is correct, the trend favours the 'American' usage ... even in Britain.

The good news about tinternet is you can always find someone who will agree with you!!!

 

If you are really lucky, you will find two people.

The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, Oxford,

"Opinion is divided over the form to use before h-words in which the first syllable is unstressed: the thoroughly modern thing to do is to use a (never an) together with an aspirated h ... but not to demur if others use anwith minimal or nil aspiration given to the following h..."

"An hotel (with no aspiration in the second word) is now old-fashioned ... but by no means extinct ..."

 

I’m positivley archaic!!