Re: what is it?
From Lemming <l3m...@bumblbee.demon.co.uk>
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· 3 Oct 2001 19:43 · View full thread
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ppu...@damthatspam.chello.nl (Peter Punk) wrote: >On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 13:29:21 +0200, "CeeJay" <new...@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. ===== \ / ):( It seems to me that time is running out for this /.:.\ non-ascii discussion of different languages! ===== (It's supposed to be an hourglass) -- Lemming Curiosity *may* have killed Schr�dinger's cat.
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