[Gllug] [OT] speaking French in France

[Pip]

On Tuesday 07 Sep 2004 19:19, Doug Winter wrote:
> Just to score extra pedantry points (will I win the caravan?), it's not 
> any word beginning with 'h', it's words beginning with 'h' that come 
> from the french.  That's why it is "an hotel" but not "an horse".

Actually, it isn't. It would be if hotel was pronounced in a French style, but 
not when it's pronounced with an h at the beginning - hotel rather than 
'otel. It was just a way of trying to sound sophisticated a couple of 
centuries ago when French was considered a stylish language, but it went 
rather wrong.


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