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Is it * FA Cup Match ?

  • A FA Cup Match

    Votes: 8 21.6%
  • An FA Cup Match

    Votes: 29 78.4%

  • Total voters
    37


On the Left Wing

KIT NAPIER
Oct 9, 2003
7,094
Wolverhampton
A Football Association Cup Match

BUT

An EF AY Cup Match

The abbreviation becomes soundable so F becomes EF and thus the use of An
 




perseus

Broad Blue & White stripe
Jul 5, 2003
23,454
Sūþseaxna
Consonents and 'y' but not unaspirated 'h's are proceeded by 'a', if that is the way they are pronounced. Otherwise it is an 'an'.


My interpretation (there might be exceptions?)
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aspirate | asp()rt | a. & n. M16. [L aspiratus pa. pple, f. as next: see -ATE2, -ATE1.] A adj. Aspirated, pronounced with a marked flow of breath. M16. B n. An aspirate consonant; a consonant followed by or blended with the sound of h; the sound of h. E17.

aspirate | aspret | v. L17. [L aspirat- pa. ppl stem of aspirare ASPIRE v.: see -ATE3.] I 1 v.i. Of a consonant: be pronounced with aspiration. rare. L17. 2 v.t. Pronounce with a marked flow of breath. E18. 3 v.i. Pronounce the sound of h at the beginning of a word. E19.
1 DRYDEN Our w and h aspirate. 2 L. BLOOMFIELD An aspirated p, t, k, (as we usually have it in words like pin, tin, kick). 3 M. EDGEWORTH Londoners [are] always aspirating where they should not, and never aspirating where they should.

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Excerpted from The Oxford Interactive Encyclopedia
Developed by The Learning Company, Inc. Copyright (c) 1997 TLC Properties Inc.

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Dialogue "a hotel" or "an 'otel"

Tricky ones: How do you pronouce a Url ? (you-are-ell) or an Url (earl). I use the former.
 








perseus

Broad Blue & White stripe
Jul 5, 2003
23,454
Sūþseaxna
Lord Bracknell said:
You're confusing sex with gender, perseus.

Never could understand why the French insisted on Le havre unless it had sexual connotations?

Or the pond = l'étang is plural (I think, I am not sure about that).
 
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