On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:13:00PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > "an apple", "an egg", "an igloo", "an orange", "a Unix", "a unicorn", "an > ungent", "an ugly person". > > I guess that the rule is that "yoo" requires "a" but "u" as in "mug" > requires "an".
If it starts phonetically with a vowel, it needs an 'n', 'Unix' (aka [ju:niks] starts with the semi-vowel (is that the proper English word?) [j], so no 'n' needed. [Another instance of a semi-vowel is btw the 'v' in 'vowel'] ai ri:lli look 'fo:ruards tu )e nekst spelling ri'fo:rm in 'iGlend. Andre'
