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From: Lemming <l3mst0r@bumblbee.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: what is it?
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 20:43:45 +0100
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ppunk@damthatspam.chello.nl (Peter Punk) wrote:

>On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 13:29:21 +0200, "CeeJay" <newsgroups@ceejay.cjb.nOt> provoked
>the following text:
>
>>sort of like you use "a" for some word and "an" for other words in english
>>.. only I dont know the rule for when you use which .. 
>
>It's rather easy when you know it really, when a word begins with a vowel, you
>say "an" (an apple, an oven, an utter) if it begins with a consonant, it's
>always "a" (a pear, a clock, a ship).
>
>It's easy as (a) pie :-))

What about Hour, Hotel, Happy?  It's not enough to know that the word
starts with a vowel, you have to know it *sounds* as though it starts
with a vowel.

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Lemming

Curiosity *may* have killed Schr�dinger's cat.