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Originally Posted by HarryT
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).
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The rule, as taught to me, was a noun starting with a vowel uses "AN", otherwise it's "A". The exception being nouns where there is a 'silent' first character - the most obvious one being the "H"..
edit : My pronunciation is always 'otel, 'ospital .....