> Good to see someone else takes those arbitary rules about "a" before consonants and "an" before vowels as seriously as I do. In an universe the size of this one, that kind of regimentation is an useful way to provide an uniform system everyone can understand.
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> Prescriptive "but unfortunately not ubiquitous" grammerian

Agh! "an universe" "an useful" "an uniform"... I suppose that's right, isn't it? I tend to say what sounds right and write it like that too... which is wrong, but none of my teachers have ever bothered me about it... I hate English. why don't we all speak some language where there's no room for weird discrepancies like that? a bunch of languages, you either have a masculine or a feminine pre-fix thingy and that's that. oh well. *sigh*

Uni"parlez-vous francais?"peg