The university allows URLs as a "person name", so the spammer bots filled forms everywhere filling with my email and the spam URL as my name. So i'm getting bombarded by "legit" emails with a spam url as in "hi SPAM_URL"
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Hold on, English is dumb as fuck, is "an university" correct?
I would guess this person pronounces it like "ooniversity" in which case it's correct, it depends on if there's a vowel or consonant sound, not what letter it is. But I never heard it pronounced that way, for me it's always been "youniversity" and in that case it's incorrect.
It's a university. Don't ask me why.
Because an precedes a word that starts with a vowel sound, not just because they start with a vowel letter
No although it should be, an is used in place of proceeding a vowel
The correct usage is "a university" because the pronunciation of "university" begins with a consonant sound.
Proceeding a vowel sound. The actual spelling is irrelevant.
He was an honest man, an hourly worker, and an heir to the throne. He rode a unicorn to a university, and oddly he was a eunuch.
Perfectly explains why so many officials say "today is an historic event"
Not. Lol fuck these rules.
"an historic" only works in some accents. British, for example, pronounces it as "istoric".
Edit: un-mis-spelling
Weird... I pronounce it historic. Tomato tomato I guess.
Lol. I guess my auto correct fixed it. Oops. I'll edit
Thank you I did not know this but this makes perfect sense based on my intuition
OP is Italian. The u in the Italian word for university, universitá, is said with a vowel 'ooh' sound instead of a consonant 'you' sound. I'd wager they remember their English 'a vs an' rule phonetically and, with the words being so similar between languages, mixed the pronunciation up. I'm a native English speaker and that's 100% how I fuck up my Italian.
In Latin langs, y sounds like i (e sound), so that's probably where the confusion comes from.
It's debatable, technically it does start with a vowel so "an" should be used, but since it starts with a Y consonant sound, using "a" sounds a lot better and may also be considered correct/better.
Not really debatable, that's the actual rule. An before words that start with a vowel sound.
'An' is used before any vowel. An opposite, an electrician, an icehouse, an apple.
Yes, but no. Your rule is correct, but the application of it isn’t. “An” is used for vowel sounds.
University (you-knee-ver-city), UFO (you-eff-ooh) use “a”, while honorable (on-oohr-a-bul) uses “an”.
Confusing language for sure.