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But when used as an affectation, as was described, it is a form of
hypercorrection.

I don't know who you're talking about, but you have no room to
criticise anyone else's accent, you fahckin Laandaner.

 

It's 'an historic' that bristles me.

 

Sounds right when pronounced "a notel"

 

Not to me. If someone says 'a notel', it gets translated to 'an hotel'
somewhere between my ears & my brain.

 

In practice I will often say, as will you I'm sure, 'theyotel', or
'anotel'. 'An Hotel', aspirated, is what sound so pretentious to me.

 

B fer mutton.

C for yerself.

D fer blind.

E fer option

F fer pheasant

G fer police

H... I forget

I fer lot of money

J fer orange

K fer restaurant

L fer leather

M fer sis

etc etc etc

 

the oh-tel
<sweeps up a load of 'h's from the floor>

 

I'm not from London, I'm from Kent.

 

Not just bloody pretentious, its WRONG.
'A' only becomes 'An' when the first (pronounced) letter of the following
word is a vowel. So either 'A Hotel' or 'An Otel' is correct[1] pronunciation.
IOW it is only 'An' if you drop the 'H' to make the first letter a vowel.

[1] Yes I know, dropping the H is arguably wrong but is accepted modern use.

 

And fucking WRONG.
You only add the 'n' if you drop the 'h'.
Adding the 'n' in written form implies that the 'h' should not be pronounced.

 

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

 

Exactly.

 

I suppose there are worse parts of London.

Do you see the whole of the UK as either London or "the North" then?

 

Nah - draw a straight line from Bristol to Norwich. Anything above
that is "the North".

Actually, I think that might put a part of North Devon in "the North"
but what can you do, eh?

 

Oh well, on those criteria I have to feel sorry for the Londoners, as
they will now have to include Devon and Cornwall as Cockneys as well.

 

Not quite. Anything below the line can, nay *has* to, be sub-divided,
of course.

 

Well yes, but that's not exactly rocket science: West London, North
London, East London and Saarf London.

 

Crn, crn, crn.

 

Draw a straight line from Bristol to Maldon, more like.

Anything west of Reading is Wales.

 

Kindly explain why what I wrote is wrong.