+56 An is used before words beginning in a vowel. However, you've never noticed we use a in front of words like universe, unified, etc, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What you said is incorrect, you use "an" in front of vowel sounds, not necessarily vowels themselves.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

well they still use a vowel sound

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No... they don't.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's for vowel sounds, those are pronounced more like 'a yuniverse'.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

y is a vowel

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Not in this context.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Or that an goes in front of Hawaiian and hour

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I say a hawaiian, not an but hour is pronounce like our, with a o vowel sound

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think there's something not lekker with SA textbooks. I saw in mine that it's "an hotel", even though it is most definitely "a hotel".

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Unicorn, too! Don't forget unicorn!

by Anonymous 12 years ago