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Old 12-Dec-2006, 05:53
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Default Re: A or An?

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Originally Posted by Tdol View Post
Why?
let us see...vowels in english language are aeiou and conventionally we are told to use an before them but its not because we use an before a word only when the sound is of a vowel.....

eg. a/an M.B.A. the answer is...... an M.B.A. because here M of MBA sounds like AM.B.A. so thats why we use am.

another eg. a /an union......again U of Union sounds like yu-nion. so here we use a instead of an
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