Why you should know: The ‘a’ vs ‘an’ conundrum is not about what letter actually begins the word, but instead about how the sound of the word starts.
For example, the ‘h’ in ‘hour’ is silent, so you would say ‘an hour’ and not ‘a hour’. A trickier example is Ukraine: because the ‘U’ is pronounced as ‘You’, and in this case the ‘y’ is a consonant, you would say “a Ukraine” and not “an Ukraine”.
Tip: when in doubt, sound it out(loud).
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Don’t forget that ‘h’ is an exception and counts as a vowel: “a hat”edit literally i am wrong about this why did i write that
This edit made me laugh
Don’t worry we’ve all been there
i think my blood sugar was low or sumthin lmao