>>>>>>I offered you a similar solution for Israel, as an island country, but you weren't able to name the surrounding waters. Still, that would be like claiming that Vatican isn't an european country.
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>>>>>Nice. but wrong use of 'an' there Dragan its 'a european'
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>>>>>http://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/a-an.htm
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>>>>>see the Importance of sound
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>>>>Ah... as my other tagline said, "united we stand corrected". May I sit now?
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>>>I thought you'd enjoy the statement on the web site
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>>>"Normally, we pronounce consonant letters with a consonant sound, and vowel letters with a vowel sound. But there are some exceptions" LOL
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>>There should be a separate chapter on the neglect and abuse suffered by letter aitch. But you're in good company there - there are very few languages that show it proper respect.
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>Like hell! I don't know why you would utter such horrendous heresy here.

Actually, it should be khorendous kheresy - prefixing it with a k is the only way to make sure aitch is pronounced (unless it's in a transcript of a slavic name, where you misunderstand the intention and read the k while omitting the poor aitch, so Khrushchev becomes kroo-shev instead of hroosh-chov; for the e-o controversy blame the Russians themselves for always omitting the diaeresis).

Now count the number of aitches who serve as shoeshine boys - all those in th, ch, ph, sh, tch... they never get their own voice heard. Some democracy, eh?