Disaster on DL16 from JFK to Bombay: any advice?
Dec 28, 2006 | 9:38 am
#46
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It's a grey area when it comes to the written word. If I'd written the sentence, I would have said "a FF," since "FF" is an abbreviation of "frequent flyer," and you wouldn't say "an frequent flyer."
Dec 28, 2006 | 9:46 am
#47
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Agreed. If the FF is vocalised as "Ef Ef" then "an FF" is correct but if it is vocalised as "Frequent Flyer" then "a FF" is correct and since the intent of the author is unclear one can't fault the author for using either.
Dec 28, 2006 | 9:46 am
#48
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For example, it is an hour because the first sound is "ow."
I've never heard, abe, of going by what the abbreviation stands for in determining which article to use.
Dec 28, 2006 | 9:53 am
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This thread are already an disaster without having to digress to an topic at an hand.
Please resume an discussion that are current in that thread and discuss an grammar lesson in an OMNI forum and no more discussion about ef-n this and ef-n that.
Thank youse.
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Please resume an discussion that are current in that thread and discuss an grammar lesson in an OMNI forum and no more discussion about ef-n this and ef-n that.
Thank youse.
Regards,
Canarsie
An co-moderator of an Delta forum
Dec 28, 2006 | 10:04 am
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Dec 28, 2006 | 10:10 am
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The real rule is that if the next word begins with a vowel sound, use AN. If it begins with a consonant sound, use A.
Dec 28, 2006 | 7:10 pm
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Well, that can't be universal because we do not say "An European." And some people do put AN when the next word starts with a consonant, "An Historic occasion."
The real rule is that if the next word begins with a vowel sound, use AN. If it begins with a consonant sound, use A.
The real rule is that if the next word begins with a vowel sound, use AN. If it begins with a consonant sound, use A.