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Subject: Re: what is it?
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 22:37:45 +0200
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> >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.

an hour
a hotel
a happy

right ?

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>     ):(      It seems to me that time is running out for this
>    /.:.\     non-ascii discussion of different languages!
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> (It's supposed to be an hourglass)

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