On Wednesday, 29 April 2015 at 09:57:01 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
On Wednesday, 29 April 2015 at 09:44:27 UTC, Chris wrote:
Just follow your natural way of speaking and you'll be fine.
Read it out to yourself. And let's be honest, it sounds really
crap when you read "an UFCS", bahhh!
Yes, well, the problem is that "an U" sounds completely fine in
my head!
The way you pronounce the U letter in the English alphabet is
the same (not sure if identical) as the Russian letter Ю, which
is considered a vowel in Russian.
In that case you'll just have to learn the rule: if it's a single
letter, it has to be `an`. Sorry, I didn't realize that /j/ is
treated as a vowel in Russian. I was thinking of languages I'm
familiar with, and there /j/ is always treated as a consonant. Is
the Russian sound a fricative or a pure vowel without any
friction (= obstruction)?
