Grammar and Usage: Your Questions Answered: A New and Updated Version of 'English Grammar: Your Questions Answered' by McCarthy Michael

Author:McCarthy, Michael [McCarthy, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Prolinguam Publishing
Published: 2020-05-17T16:00:00+00:00

H- IN WORDS LIKE HISTORIC AND HOTEL

I’m often asked which is better: a historic moment or an historic moment , and whether the ‘h’ is pronounced when people write an historic moment , or an hotel . The pronunciation ’otel now sounds outdated, as does ’istoric . So, you can always safely say a historic event at a hotel near Hampstead Heath and sound every h -, but take a deep breath before you do.

Recently, a historian (or should that be an historian ?) on a BBC TV documentary referred to late Medieval England as being a society where the common people looked up to an hereditary nobility (with the h - sounded), and a commentator on BBC Radio 4 news similarly pronounced an historic gap with a sounded h-. Both came over as strangely quaint and old-fashioned.

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