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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Bell [SMTP:dbell@THEBELLS.NET]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 6:19 PM
> To:   PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: [OT]: "a/an" in English
>
> Matt Bennett <mjb@HAZMAT.COM> wrote:
>
> >"Alexandre Domingos F. Souza" wrote:
>
> >> in a 8052 (another good question: In english, when you use the "a"
> >>before a number as it were consonant, or "an" as if it were a vowel?)
>
> >Oh, and about the a/an thing- it all depends on what the initial *sound*
> >is- if it is a vowel sound like 8502- 'an' is more proper, but a
> >consonant *sound* like 7400 would take an 'a'.
>
> Yes, the fact that the word following the article is a number has no
> bearing. As in Matt's example, 8/eight takes 'an', and 7/seven takes 'a'.
> Where it gets less clear is in American vs. British English, and leading
> 'H' may get dropped. In American, we would usually say "a hat", rather
> than "an 'at"!
>
> Dave Bell
>

Sounds like you are thinking of a stereotyped cockney accent !! We don't
all
speak like that you know...jolly bad show old man. :o)

>>>> Of course we do. I remember that cosmetic ad with the "English make up
woman for the film Titanic"; in the British version, she had no discernable
accent (not even regional, from a British viewpoint)...On going to the
States and seeing the American version, she had been dubbed with some kind
of "midway between Princess Anne and a female Dick van Dyke cockney cheeky
fellowess".. ;-)

Dan

Mike

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