use of article a/an

A hotel, house, hospital, handbag etc.... Words start with " h" take an 'a'. But use " an" for " honor " and " honest man ".

Anonymous plz tell me which one should be more accurate using A or AN before the word Hotel.I spent the night in gopalpur in.......hotel.(a/an)

Traditionally and/or formally, at least in BrE, "an hotel" was used on the basis that the first syllable of "hotel" is unstressed. Similarly "an historic occasion", "an horrendous act", and so on. To me personally, "an

GPY"an hotel" was used on the basis that the first syllable of "hotel" is unstressed.

American usage adds (or used to add) another condition. The vowel in the initial unstressed syllable must be a lax I. "an historic event", but "a hotel", "a hallucination". I've also seen the opinion that the 'h'-word has to be an adjective to take "an". Almost no one pay