Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 23:58:33 -0500 (EST) From: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>, Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>, asami@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960322235504.12371A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <22389.827542080@time.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > FWIW, I've never seen "an unit" used anywhere on this side of the > pond. Our english teacher taught us (way back in the late 70's) that > `an' be used in front of words starting a, e, i or o. We never > learned it as a general rule for vowels (especially since u and > sometimes y fit that category, and you'd never say "an uniform" or "an > yankee"). But then there are also those really tricky ones like "hotel" which can be "a hotel" one day, and "an hotel" the next! --
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