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Aimlak:
Quote from: Morlock on 2010 August 24, 03:56:24
Always use an before a vowel, not a. Vowels are the letters a e i o u.
That's not entirely right either. The rule is you have you use "an" before a vowel sound and there can be other letters even when there's a vowel sound. Eg. an hour; an honor; an MP3.
Morlock:
Quote from: Aimlak on 2010 August 24, 23:40:06
That's not entirely right either.
It is entirely right, always 'an' before a vowel, not 'a'. There are other rules for when 'an' is correctly used before a consonant, I just didn't expand on them as you did.
Jeeves:
"A unit"?
Aimlak:
Quote from: Morlock on 2010 August 25, 01:43:33
It is entirely right, always 'an' before a vowel, not 'a'. There are other rules for when 'an' is correctly used before a consonant, I just didn't expand on them as you did.
By "not entirely right" I didn't mean you were wrong, but that you had left out the important part in that its based on vowel sounds, not on vowel letters. There are some rare cases where a vowel letter is silent or such where a vowel letter doesn't designate that there is a vowel sound there, thus meaning "an" would not be used in this case. I can't think of an example since it is such a rare case.
Morlock:
Yeah okay, occasionally 'u'. Damn pedants!
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