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Originally Posted by kalli  Dear students, "u" is a semi-vowel;this means that sometimes it behaves as a vowel like in "umbrella","ultimatum","underproduction"etc when an"an" is necessary.Other times it behaves like a consonant as in "university","union","unique" when an "a" is needed.Practice will help!  |
Kalli is absolutely right and so is of course,BobK.
Not only does that happen to U but to E too...ex: a European country, an abbreviations like an MP..