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Originally Posted by GeoffC
On a slightly different note; do you say .....
a hospital, or an hospital ?
a hotel, or an hotel ?
I was always taught that the 'silent' H meant the word phonetically started with a vowel...
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That's not quite the right "rule". You say "an" if the word starts with an "h"
and the "stress" is
not on the first syllable. Thus, it's "a hospital" (stress on the first syllable), but "an hotel" (stress on the second syllable).