> Nick Taylor wrote:
> > Does anybody know of an English word that starts with a vowel,
> > but is pronounced as though it starts with a consonant?
>
> opossum

And some words such as "newt" and "orange" were originally
spelled as "ewt" and "narange", so "an ewt", or "a narange".

("nar..." was changed to "or..." as an association with the
golden colour)

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