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Old 28-Oct-2006, 08:35
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Why?

Please note that most of the people who have answered so far have got it wrong.

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Old 29-Oct-2006, 04:07
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universal resource locator - url

so I chose "a"
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Old 30-Oct-2006, 23:30
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It should be a, U in the URL sounds like a consonant.
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Old 31-Oct-2006, 11:54
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I'M perline and I agree with sooris
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Old 05-Nov-2006, 04:50
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An, it's u
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Old 05-Nov-2006, 07:08
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It should be a, U in the URL sounds like a consonant.
yup,I'm with you...
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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!
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it should be "A"
because U is the first letter of the word universal ,
and we say "a" universal
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Most people say /əju:arel/ but I've also heard (and accept) /ənɜ:l/. What is wrong is /ənju:arel/.

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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!
I get it and hope that this answer is the correct .

what do you see Tdol ?
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