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Smart Boy · #41 25-Sep-2009, 02:25

Quote:

Originally Posted by John007

because URL is read as (YU)( R)( L) then the correct answer is "A URL"

examples to help you- An Umbrella
A universal language
An unimportant event

read the sentences and listen to the difference in the sounds of the words such as (YU) as in uniform or (A) as in up.

You are right . I accept with you .

Thank you .

RedBlue · #42 26-Sep-2009, 22:04

Its A and I voted for an "AN". :( darn it!

sweet nadood · #43 01-Oct-2009, 04:46

the url >>>>>>kidding

i think its (a)

marshtric · #44 02-Oct-2009, 19:06

I think it sounds to be A ...

whatu guess?

the creative · #45 08-Oct-2009, 17:55

I chose an because in english an-------------a,o,u,i,y,e
a-------------with another letters

thanks

**RonBee** · #46 14-Oct-2009, 18:05

It's the sound that matters:
.

an umbrella
a European

drpaultravel · #47 21-Oct-2009, 02:10

I love this forum! I am tutoring English in Colombia...and...I never heard such things as "semi-vowels" in my education!
Thanks for these responses/clarifications!

marif0915 · #48 06-Nov-2009, 17:36

It's A URL

soutter · #49 09-Nov-2009, 12:11

Usually a u pronounced as if f the word begins with a y (a semivowel), usual, union, university (mostly borrowed from Latin or French) it is treatzed as if it were a consonant: hence a university (but sometimes thee (as if it were a vowel) university.

Words (mostly form the Germanic side of the language) that have the sharp u as in under, underwear, ulcer, udder ugliness are treated like a vowel.