is it wrong to say "an hotel"

[Kwfine]

just wonder if it is grammatically correct to say"
“I had been living in an hotel for some days before I left…”

[Torsten]

Hi Kwfine,

The article that is used before the word hotel is “a”. So you can say “I had been staying at a hotel…”.[YSaerTTEW443543]

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[Kwfine]

@Torsten

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.

[Yankee]

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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[Kwfine]

@Yankee

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
Thanks Yankee!