Re: what is it?
From lastfuture (Peter Marquardt) <las...@lastfuture.de>
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· 12 Oct 2001 19:19 · View full thread
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:59:49 GMT, Peter Henderson <pet...@usa.net> wrote: >anonymous@bogus_address.con wrote: >> On 2001-10-03 l3m...@bumblbee.demon.co.uk said: >> >> > >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. >> >> In American English, the preferred (and proper) usage is: >> >> =A= hotel >> =A= happy >> =A= hovel >> =A= ham >> =A= herring >> >> ..since in American English, the leading 'h' is almost always >> pronounced. There is no 'dropped-H' Cockney accent in the U.S.A. >> >> 'Hour' is the exception that proves the rule. In American English, >> the leading 'h' in 'hour' is =not= pronounced...so correct usage >> there is '=an= hour.' But that's a rare exception. >> >> > > >How about acronyms like RTF? Is it a RTF file (because R is a consonant) >or an RTF file (because when R is pronounced it startes with a vowel >*sound*)? See http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?ar According to the >dictionary the letter R is spelled "ar" so it really does start with a >vowel, even though it's a consonant. I'm a native English speaker, but >was never taught this... Does anyone have an authoritative answer? I >think it's "an RTF file" based on what I've said...but I need an >authoritative answer to prove my English teacher wrong... :o) > >Sincerely, >Peter Henderson >pet...@usa.net i was taught it's "a uniform" because u doesn't sound like a vowel when pronounced in this case... it's more like a "yu" or "yoo" ..and my english teacher also taught me that it was "an REM cycle" (REM = rapid eye movement) ...so i think that question is answered :) .. i also checked back with another english teacher i know to be sure it's correct.
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