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Jun 17, 2007View in Crawl 4
I have XAMPP on my stick! works perfectly well.But end of the day nothing can beat ftp access to my home server.Handy for doing consultation work, tho to have it on a stick.
FALSE."An" is used to precede any noun which starts with a vowel. "A" is used when the noun does not contain a vowel. The confusions comes in when adjectives are put in between the "An" and the noun. For acronyms, you have to mentally spell out the acronym to determine which one to use.For "Universal Serial Bus," "BUS" is the noun, so we use "A" instead of "An," even though the phrase starts with a vowel.The poster is wrong.
Is it just me or is the rule of "a" and "an" more attached to the phonetic sound of the first syllable rather than the actual first letter? To me, saying "an USB" sounds so wrong compared to saying "a USB" because the U is pronounced as the literal letter which has that sometimes-Y-except-not-this-time sound?
Your absolutely correct. In cases where the first letter is a vowel, it is determined by weather the vowel is a hard vowel sound or a soft one. Soft vowel sounds get "an" and hard ones get "a". The "U" in USB is definitely a hard vowel sound.A side note: hard vowel sounds say their name. Just like saying A,E,I,O, and U in your head. All the vowels in "pencil" are soft, and the "a" in "make" is a hard vowel sound.
zeno60Jun 18, 2007
@jdwtcIts even funnier the 80th time someone does it!!!
jlebrechJun 18, 2007
I have XAMPP on my stick! works perfectly well.But end of the day nothing can beat ftp access to my home server.Handy for doing consultation work, tho to have it on a stick.
johnnyxmasJun 18, 2007
FALSE."An" is used to precede any noun which starts with a vowel. "A" is used when the noun does not contain a vowel. The confusions comes in when adjectives are put in between the "An" and the noun. For acronyms, you have to mentally spell out the acronym to determine which one to use.For "Universal Serial Bus," "BUS" is the noun, so we use "A" instead of "An," even though the phrase starts with a vowel.The poster is wrong.
eggmanJun 18, 2007
@Erectile (#7239872)an hero
dafragstaJun 18, 2007
Is it just me or is the rule of "a" and "an" more attached to the phonetic sound of the first syllable rather than the actual first letter? To me, saying "an USB" sounds so wrong compared to saying "a USB" because the U is pronounced as the literal letter which has that sometimes-Y-except-not-this-time sound?
Closed AccountJun 18, 2007
John kicked A unicorn as it stole AN umbrella?It'd AN understatement to say thats A useless statement in any other context.
flashingcurserJun 18, 2007
Your absolutely correct. In cases where the first letter is a vowel, it is determined by weather the vowel is a hard vowel sound or a soft one. Soft vowel sounds get "an" and hard ones get "a". The "U" in USB is definitely a hard vowel sound.A side note: hard vowel sounds say their name. Just like saying A,E,I,O, and U in your head. All the vowels in "pencil" are soft, and the "a" in "make" is a hard vowel sound.
spankaccountJun 22, 2007
It's a USB stick. An USB stick is wrong and sounds bad to boot.