Reply to: Jimmy Carr gets off phone while driving charge

[Bagpuss]

Yeah, get it wrong or get it right.

You can't get it wrong or right. Some people would use a. Depends on your accent really. Posh people would tend not to use an. On the other hand if you are Parker from the Thunderbirds.

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexper...tgrammar/hotel

[BrowneIssue]

A hotel or an hotel is a matter of preference

Yeah, get it wrong or get it right.

Lol, AtW teaching us English now as well as Ecomonics and morality.

Don't you just love the t'InterWeb F***-Up Fairy?

[DiscoStu]

http://www.english-zone.com/grammar/a-anlessn.html

"Use AN if the next word begins with a vowel SOUND.
This is a sound rule, NOT a spelling rule."

E-mmm. Fish-mitten.

[d000hg]

Lol, AtW teaching us English now as well as Ecomonics and morality.

[Bagpuss]

Even an American spelling and grammar site got it right. Although I'd be somewhat wary of taking grammar advice from a site that has an "Ez bookshop" whatever one of those it.

Also, that page is wrong, since it says that it should be "a hotel" rather than "an hotel".

A hotel or an hotel is a matter of preference

[TheFaQQer]

http://www.english-zone.com/grammar/a-anlessn.html

"Use AN if the next word begins with a vowel SOUND.
This is a sound rule, NOT a spelling rule."

Even an American spelling and grammar site got it right. Although I'd be somewhat wary of taking grammar advice from a site that has an "Ez bookshop" whatever one of those it.

Also, that page is wrong, since it says that it should be "a hotel" rather than "an hotel".

[AtW]

It's pronounced like that everywhere. And rule wise, as it's an abbreviation and pronounced M.O.T. it should be written with an an.

HTH

http://www.english-zone.com/grammar/a-anlessn.html

"Use AN if the next word begins with a vowel SOUND.
This is a sound rule, NOT a spelling rule."

[Moscow Mule]

Maybe it is pronounced like that in some circles, the rule-wise it should be written with an a...

We need a :fail smiley.

[DiscoStu]

Maybe it is pronounced like that in some circles, the rule-wise it should be written with an a...

It's pronounced like that everywhere. And rule wise, as it's an abbreviation and pronounced M.O.T. it should be written with an an.

HTH

[AtW]

Actually, since it's pronounced Emm Oh Tee, you would use "an".

Maybe it is pronounced like that in some circles, the rule-wise it should be written with an a...

[Bunk]

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a

Actually, since it's pronounced Emm Oh Tee, you would use "an".

HTH

[AtW]

I've got a car, but haven't been using it much lately. It's due an MOT next week

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a

[TimberWolf]

Get a car

I've got a car, but haven't been using it much lately. It's due an MOT next week

[AtW]

Yeah, on average, although I've almost come a cropper when they've wandered into the road in front of me on my bike. You're then faced with a millisecond decision on whether to swerve into the road and risked being squished yourself, or plough into them. They can often be seen wandering along in the gutter in town centres too, oblivious to traffic.

Get a car

[TimberWolf]

Pedestrians pay higher price in case of accident...

Yeah, on average, although I've almost come a cropper when they've wandered into the road in front of me on my bike. You're then faced with a millisecond decision on whether to swerve into the road and risked being squished yourself, or plough into them. They can often be seen wandering along in the gutter in town centres too, oblivious to traffic.