Michel- Ralph Martin has it partially right, partially wrong. We use "an" before a vowel SOUND in English. We use "a" before a consonant SOUND. What a written word or letter looks like and how it sounds are two different things. So we say "I bought 'A' Sanderson Accu-Tuner because the 'S' starts with a hissing consonant sound. We say "I bought 'AN' SAT because 'S'(the letter 'S') starts with the sound 'eh'(a vowel sound). We usually don't use "an" before "h", e.g.: "I bought A house, A hot dog, A Hamilton(high "F" stretch # and all), A halibut steak, etc. Bob Anderson Tucson, AZ
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