Technical Writing and Communication

When do you use “an”?

I know, silly question! Even my neighbor the little girl who hates school believes that her teacher already explained vowels. What the teacher failed to explain her is “it’s never about vowels, it’s all about phonetics”.

Let us see it this way – “an hour”, we put an before hour because it sounds like OUR.

So are there some exceptions to put “AN” before words starting with vowels? I bet there are…

A User – (Sounds Yu-zer, Y is not a vowel)
A Eulogy (Sounds Yu-Logy)
A Union (Sounds Yun-Nian)
A University (Sounds Yu-Niversity)

Let me know if you find more of these words, and you thought just Vowels are so important eh!