Thursday 7 March 2013

An US soldier?

ChannelNewsAsia - 3 March 2013
The article An before US is wrong. The correct article is A, because the initial sound in US is the consonant "j".

The trick is to remember that the indefinite article rule applies to sounds, not letters. So we say an umbrella, but a unicorn.
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