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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 3 Oct 2001.
Re: what is it?

Re: what is it?

> >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).

I _KNEW_ that - I was refering to the danish din/dit rule *lol*

[snip]

> Am i right in thinking that if a German had to write the word "tysk" that
he
> would write it as "tuesk"? (in non-ASCII: "t�sk").

I dont know .. maybe a german could answer this

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