Talk:hotel

The definition at the time I write is "An establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests."

This is clearly not a good definition, as it would include boarding-houses, apartments rented with some sort of service, etc.; and it would exclude hotels which supply accomodation without any other services.

Also, "hotel" can be used as an adjective: food is prepared in hotel kitchens.
 * (No, this is a noun used attributively)

Maybe someone might want to tidy this up?

Pol098

public house
I removed this sense per RFV. It should be re-added if it it can be verified and more clearly phrased: - -sche (discuss) 20:20, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
 * 1)  A public house, at which accommodation was once commonly provided, but now only rarely.
 * 2) * 1895, New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, |%22hotels%22+australia+OR+zealand+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22hotel%22|%22hotels%22+australia+OR+zealand+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9SaIT_vjN-ayiQerwOSyCQ&redir_esc=y page 355,
 * It means that two persons who vote for keeping hotels, or are in favour of drunkenness, can neutralise the votes of three temperance people.

RFV discussion
Rfv-sense: "A public house, at which accommodation was once commonly provided, but now only rarely." It doesn't sound very implausible, but I don't quite understand it, or, if I do, I'm not sure it's different from the main sense. The citation doesn't seem to be describing something particularly different, and many early hotels were indistinguishable from inns anyway. It's labelled "chiefly New Zealand, Australia", so if anyone from there wants to weigh in... Ƿidsiþ 11:56, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
 * RFV-failed for now, moved to the talk page. - -sche (discuss) 20:21, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

silent "h" discussion
I removed the following text under "Usage" on the basis that it's not helpful, not specific to hotel and its relevance is largely implied by the other existing usage note.
 * 1) The practice of using the indefinite article an in front of a polysyllabic word staring with an unemphasised syllable beginning with an aitch, like hotel and historical, will be seen in older quotations but has become absent or quite rare in almost all circles.