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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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