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Guest Posted 23 years ago
Grammar

"a" or "an" before MBA?

Please help settle a dispute between a colleague of mine and me. Which is best usage in a resume_: "a MBA" or "an MBA"? I maintain that, since a resume is essentially a marketing tool, colloquial usage rings truer in the reader's ear and trumps the usual rule of using "a" before a consonant. Who says, "I have _a MBA?"
  

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I think the best way to handle it on a resume is not to say I. Under education just put MBA university of.... Rarely have I heard of the pronoun I being used on a resume.

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  • I think the best way to handle it on a resume is not to say I.
  • Under education just put MBA university of....
  • Rarely have I heard of the pronoun I being used on a resume.
  • So leave it out.
  • In general writing a would be correct as m is a consonant sound.
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I think the best way to handle it on a resume is not to say I.
Under education just put MBA university of....
Rarely have I heard of the pronoun I being used on a resume. So leave it out.
In general writing a would be correct as m is a consonant sound.



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When the letter M is pronounced, it sounds like "em" so since it begins with a vowel sound and we are saying the letters one by one, I would say "an" MBA.
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It's an MBA right and not a MBA
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Correct. Definitely "an MBA" for the reasons that Woodward has mentioned above.
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Use "an". The letter "M" is prounounced "em". The sound is key. This is also true with the letter"N".

It is correct to say " Use the article "an" preceeding an m or an n."
It would be incorrect to say " Use the article "a" preceeding a m or a n."
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Career Service at my university says it is an MBA not a MBA
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It is simple. We use an before a vowel sound, and a before a consonant sound.

Since M it is pronounce /am/ you have a vowel sound first in MBA you need "an"
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The correct usage would be "an MBA" special cases like "letters" where the pronunciation is vowel sounding and words like "hour"where the constant is silent the proper usage is grammatically "an"... But as I seen stated in the comments... Pronouns shouldn't be used on resumes. It should be done in list form... Except for the area where you would put additional comments or description of self...
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