>>>It's the same in English- the indefinite article a becomes an before a word starting with a vowel.
>>>
>>> For u it depends how it is pronounced - I think
>>>
>>>A U-Turn
>>>An unrelated matter
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>>On a related note, same goes for words beginning with an aitch - "an honorable exception".
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>>Btw, a question for the anglophone majority here: is there a word in English which begins with a "u" and has it pronounced as u? Not as uh as in under, not as yoo as in universe, but as u as in butcher, lubricate?
>
>I thought 'U' was pronounced as in 'u' of Universe ?
In in one. I was trying to think of an example and didn't think of that.
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