Re: what is it?
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.
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