The style guides The Guardian and Telegraph, and the Oxford Dictionary, advocate the use of a when the h is pronounced (a hotel, a historian).
Is it correct to say hotel or hotel?
The Guardian and Telegraph style guides and the Oxford Dictionary recommend using a when the h is pronounced at all (a hotel, a historian).
Is it quiet in the hotel?
The rule is that the article a is used before a consonant and a before a vowel, so with a silent H we would say “an honest” and with a pronounced H we would say “a hotel”. But some fancier speakers tend to treat a pronounced H as if it weren’t there, so they’d say “a historic” and “a hotel.”
WHEN DO YOU SAY A or A?
Use “a” before words that start with a consonant and “an” before words that start with a vowel. Other letters can also be pronounced bilaterally. Remember that the sound determines whether you use “a” or “an”, not the first letter of the word.
Do we use it with hotels?
Since the hotel name starts with the word hotel, don’t use the word at the beginning. When the word hotel comes before the adjective, use it to refer to it in a sentence.
Is it an hour or an hour?
For words written with the initial as a consonant but pronounced with the initial as a vowel, such as “hour” and “grass”, the correct rendering in a written document (e.g. written in American English) is: “One hour” and “One Herb”.
Is it terrible or terrible?
I’ve always followed the rule that a horrible event is correct written grammar, while a horrible event is better suited to spoken grammar. So if it is the author’s voice I would use the former and if it is direct speech I would use the latter.
Why don’t we pronounce the h in the hour?
The letter h is a special case, partly because it is often silent, partly because its usage has changed over the years. Words that start with a silent h always last a year because they start with a vowel: an hour, an honor. In modern usage, words with a strong h take on an a: a hero a horror film.
Why is the H silent in hours?
Due to the origin of “hour” and its Latin roots, the “h” is silent according to the original pronunciations. “House” is of Germanic origin, so the h is pronounced because the sound was present in earlier forms of the word.