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Re: 'An' hotel |
geordiexsara
Date:
2008-07-18
Time: 05:29:30
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its not an hotel at all! You put 'an' befor
thing that start with a vowel i.e an
interview, an oblong, an orange. Henceforth
it is a hotel not an hotel! Sorry to be
pedantic! |
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Re: 'An' hotel |
dougmckenzie
Date:
2008-07-18
Time: 10:22:53
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ot as simple as you may think, which is why I
ran away after posting it last night. This is
from the official website of the Oxford
English Dictionary:
"The form an for the indefinite article is
used before a spoken vowel sound, regardless
of how the written word is spelt. If you say
'an otel' when speaking (which is now often
regarded as distinctly old-fashioned), then
it may be appropriate for you to write 'an
hotel'; but most people say 'hotel' with a
sounded 'h', and should write 'a hotel'.
By contrast, words such as 'honour', 'heir'
or 'hour' in which the 'h' sound is dropped
are written with 'an'. Americans who drop the
'h' in 'herb' may also prefer to write 'an
herb', but in standard British pronunciation
the 'h' is sounded, and 'a herb' is therefore
correct in writing. Because 'European' is
said with an initial 'y' sound, which counts
as a consonantal sound in English speech, it
is said (and written) with 'a' not 'an'. An
abbreviation such as M.P., which is
pronounced em pea, begins with a spoken
vowel, and so it is 'an M.P.'"
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Re: 'An' hotel |
pete_lancs
Date:
2008-07-18
Time: 13:35:10
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youve changed your name gisella lol
I heard the mozart concertante on the radio
this morning..i think its one of those really
sublime pieces you can never get bored with.
Its popular but not so popular...if you know
what i mean.
now where did that come from? |
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Re: 'An' hotel |
pete_lancs
Date:
2008-07-18
Time: 13:39:37
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No actually! Its one of those pieces thats
like eating ice cream...starts in tempo, then
builds to when the viola and violin come in
sustained...
wonderful.
dunno why I think that really, Im a brass
player lol
first time i heard it was when my wife and
her sister played it for me when they were
young. |
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Re: 'An' hotel |
dougmckenzie
Date:
2008-07-19
Time: 16:47:55
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To be honest, I've used all of the above.
When in 'pompous mode' (which is most of the
time) I will use the latter part of each
example you gave, but anyone who knows me
well realises that I am using it for effect
in an attempt to be humourous with a feigned
'posh' accent.
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Re: 'An' hotel |
socrates
Date:
2008-07-19
Time: 17:21:18
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I suppose as a baby, you delighted travelling
in your perambulator - or ascending to the
top floor of the Omnibus whilst perusing the
metropolis eating cucumber sandwiches and
condescending to aknowledge the plebians.
Whilst I was nourished on dripping butties. |
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Re: 'An' hotel |
dougmckenzie
Date:
2008-07-19
Time: 20:37:38
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Socrates, you are 99% correct, but I
'ackoweledged' plebeians, as opposed to
'akowledging them.
I'm no different to anyone else here, apart
from paying a little more attention to detail
than some.
If I was copied in on an email at work that
appeared to have been written by an
uneducated moron, I would have a quiet word
in their ear on the first occasion, kick them
where it hurts on the second occasion and
fire them on the third.
Doug the Intolerant
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