October 11, 2008

This seems to be a silly question!

Our school teachers had already taught us vowels. However, what the teachers failed to explain us was it’s never about vowels, it’s all about phonetics.

Let us understand it in this way:

“an hour”, Here, we use an before hour because it sounds like OUR where O is a vowel.

So are there some exceptions to put “AN” before words starting with vowels?

I bet there are…

A User - (Sounds Yu-zer, Y is not a vowel)

A Eulogy (Sounds Yu-Logy)

A Union (Sounds Yun-Nian)

A University (Sounds Yu-Niversity)

Let me know if you find more of these words.