A or an university?

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[nq:1]I used to be under the impression that a vowel (a,e,i,o,u) is preceeded by 'an', as in 'an' even more moving scene is... Is this true?[/nq]
It doesn't epend on the letter, it depends on the sound. A word that begins with a vowel sound gets "an", one that begins with a non-vowel sound gets "a". Since "university" starts with the sound "yoo", not the sound "oo", it get

[nq:1]It doesn't epend on the letter, it depends on the sound. A word that begins with a vowel sound gets "an", one that begins with a non-vowel sound gets "a". Since "university" starts with the sound "yoo", not the sound "oo", it gets "a".[/nq]
The main reason I have a problem with "an historic...", even though people insist that it's right.

[nq:2]It doesn't epend on the letter, it depends on the ... the sound "yoo", not the sound "oo", it gets "a".[/nq]
[nq:1]The main reason I have a problem with "an historic...", even though people insist that it's right.[/nq]
For me, "an historic" is OK, but only because to my ear "a historic" is worse. It's "a history", though. I kind of halfway swallow the "h" in "historic"; it's nowhere

"Midwinter" (Email Removed) skrev i meddelelsen
[nq:2]It doesn't epend on the letter, it depends on the ... the sound "yoo", not the sound "oo", it gets "a".[/nq]
[nq:1]The main reason I have a problem with "an historic...", even though people insist that it's right.[/nq]
It is right, just like "an historian" - this is because of the notion that h is a vowel in phonetic context but pr

[nq:2]The main reason I have a problem with "an historic...", even though people insist that it's right.[/nq]
[nq:1]For me, "an historic" is OK, but only because to my ear "a historic" is worse. It's "a history", though. I kind of halfway swallow the "h" in "historic"; it's nowhere near as clearly pronounced as it is in "heresy" or "hill".[/nq]
In those dialects that have 'istoric and 'ote

[nq:1]Re: a or an university?[/nq]
Are we going to be getting the the same question for every single word in the dictionary to which it could appy? Next week will we be asked about "an unit or a unit", and "an use or a use" the week after? Are the people who ask these questions unable to grasp the idea of a general principle?

athel

"Athel Cornish-Bowden" (Email Removed) skrev i meddelelsen
[nq:2]Re: a or an university?[/nq]
[nq:1]Are we going to be getting the the same question for every single word in the dictionary to which it ... use" the week after? Are the people who ask these questions unable to grasp the idea of a general principle?[/nq]
For beginners who have been taught that it depends on the following

[nq:1]Another question: your sentence above "Are we going to be getting the same question..." Is this a correct sentence? I must admit I have never seen this kind of sentence before... "going to be getting"[/nq]
Yes, it's a very common construction that substitutes for the progressive future tense. "Are we going to get" = "will we get"; "are we going to be getting" = "will we be getting." Very

"Glenn Knickerbocker" (Email Removed) skrev i meddelelsen
[nq:2]Another question: your sentence above "Are we going to be ... seen this kind of sentence before... "going to be getting"[/nq]
[nq:1]Yes, it's a very common construction that substitutes for the progressive future tense. "Are we going to get" = "will ... writing, "going to" is contracted to "gonna." If we're at A now, are we g

[nq:1]"It's the time you went! " said to a person who is urged to go in this very moment. Here you seem to use past tense instead of present tense, which would be the correct way of putting it in my language.[/nq]
That's not right. If you went somewhere yesterday at 3:00 p.m., at 3:00 p.m. today I could say "It's the time you went". To mean that you should go now, you should say "It's time you