Re: One character ascii-art
On 2002-03-02 cla...@lords.com said:
>"Johannes 'Joey' R�ssel" <Joh...@WeB.DE> skrev:
>
> > Oh, sorry then. I did't know that. We don't learn much exceptions
> > in English lessons.
>
>That rule has no exceptions that I know of. It just goes by
>pronunciation instead of spelling. Since "urinal" is pronounced
>"yurinal", it's as much "a urinal" as it is "a yak" or "a
>youngster" et cetera.
The traditional 'rule' in English is that if a noun begins with a
vowel, then 'an' is used as the article, instead of 'a.'
But this is not a good rule, because there are too many exceptions.
Many English-language computer 'spell checkers' use this rule, and
it causes some hilarious results. :)
--
Annie Ascii -- budding 15-year-old ASCII artist
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#### #### ((( `\ Your knowledge of English is totally
## ## ## ## _ _`\ ) / amazing, Joaquim. Your English is
###### ###### (^ ) ) as good as your Swedish! Hehehe!
## ## ## ## ~-((,,,))
## ## ## ## /
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