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One fun thing is that some words can reasonably go either way: "a hotel" vs "an hotel" or "a SQL query" vs "an SQL query".
by tikhonj 14d ago
One fun thing is that some words can reasonably go either way: "a hotel" vs "an hotel" or "a SQL query" vs "an SQL query".
- wizzledonker 14d agoFor me, only “a hotel” and “an SQL query” sound correct here (Edit: I just realised this might be a dialect thing. I say “ess cue ell” and not “sequel”, and “hoe tell” rather than “otel”. Australian accent)
- crossroadsguy 14d agoLuckily zed and zee won't flip the article.
- crossroadsguy 14d agoa ho.tel an oh.tel or o.tel (is it still spoken somewhere like this?) The confusion arrives for words like "herb" depending upon whether the place uses F or C for temperature ;-)