Silly Question

[Jon Page]

At 05:09 PM 11/9/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Michel- Ralph Martin has it partially right, partially wrong. We use
>"an" before a vowel SOUND in English. We use "a" before a consonant
>SOUND. What a written word or letter looks like and how it sounds are
>two different things. So we say "I bought 'A' Sanderson Accu-Tuner
>because the 'S' starts with a hissing consonant sound. We say "I bought
>'AN' SAT because 'S'(the letter 'S') starts with the sound 'eh'(a vowel
>sound). We usually don't use "an" before "h", e.g.: "I bought A house, 
>
>A hot dog, A Hamilton(high "F" stretch # and all), A halibut steak,
>etc.  
>Bob Anderson
>Tucson, AZ
>

now that's a high note.

Jon Page
Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass. (jpage@capecod.net)
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