Sanral employee held for 'terrorism'

[supersunbird]

Another exception.

Soft-sounding 'h' gets 'An', as in honest. Hard-sounding 'h' gets 'A', like house.

Ah, okay.

Why does house always pop up in sanral and e-toll discussions?

 

[flarkit]

In this case too. You use it in front of vowel sounding words and abbreviations.

This, 100%.

The key word here is sound. It is not a question of whether the word starts with a vowel. It is a question of whether it starts with a vowel sound.

http://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/an_or_a.htm

Someone's grammar teacher needs to be revisited

 

[S1ght]

This, 100%.



Someone's grammar teacher needs to be revisited

Damnit, I was too late

Otherwise, the article seems rather vague :/

 

[Sherbang]

And even an hotel or an holiday, to be correct.

no, the h is silent in honest it's actually said onest so 'an' is appropriate. In holiday and hotel the h is not silent so 'a' is more appropriate

 

[koeksGHT]

Good detective work House!

 

[Fudzy]

And even an hotel or an holiday, to be correct.

Nope. Phonetically it still starts witha "hol.." sound

hol·i·day [hol-i-dey]

Whereas honest

hon·est [on-ist]

 

[diabolus]

Nope. Phonetically it still starts witha "hol.." sound

hol·i·day [hol-i-dey]

Whereas honest

hon·est [on-ist]

Yep same applies to the word Hour. It's AN hour...

 

[Slaught3r]

I get A pain in the arse everytime AN ******* mentions Sanral in A sentence. AN honest person would agree that A conversation like this is A precursor to AN argument.

 

[Ho3n3r]

An? Really, News24?

But yeah, lol.

Oh my hahaha seriously dude. An is 100% correct in this case.

Were you a 2013 matric?

 

[Sinbad]

But fogies with a fondness for an can at least still count on The Times style guide (‘prefer an hotel to a hotel, an historic to a historic, an heroic rather than a heroic’). And Fowler’s Modern English Usage kindly acknowledges that ‘the choice of form remains open’. - See more at: http://www.writing-skills.com/grammar/hit-or-myth-use-an-before-h-words/#sthash.QhZRE7xl.dpuf

I guess I'm a fogy.

 

[XennoX]

S isn't a vowel. You use 'an' if the next word starts with a vowel.

What about the word university? A university sounds a lot more comfortable than an university.

 

[MisterFiftySomething]

An? Really, News24?

But yeah, lol.

I agree with you. If you pronounce it as a word (Sanral) like 99% of the population do, it is "a". If you spell out the word (Es-Ay-En-Ar-Ay-El), like News24 editors do, then you use "an".

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Oh my hahaha seriously dude. An is 100% correct in this case.

Were you a 2013 matric?

Try reading the rest of the thread, mkay?

What about the word university? A university sounds a lot more comfortable than an university.

Yes, a university is right. It's vowel-sounding, so it gets 'A'.

I agree with you. If you pronounce it as a word (Sanral) like 99% of the population do, it is "a". If you spell out the word (Es-Ay-En-Ar-Ay-El), like News24 editors do, then you use "an".

Yes, but in the article the SA is a vowel-sounding abbreviation, so it gets 'an'. If it was SANRAL then it would be 'a'.

 

[Sinbad]

Try reading the rest of the thread, mkay?



Yes, a university is right. It's vowel-sounding, so it gets 'A'.
.

Care to reconsider that?

 

[Slaught3r]

So many nazis....

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Care to reconsider that?

Yeah. lol. Keep mixing up my words. >_<

http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/when-use-a

The U in university is pronounced with a long ‘u’ sound which sounds like ‘yew’ and is written as j in the phonetic alphabet. So, although the letter is a vowel, it is not pronounced like one in 'university' because it does not have a vowel sound. We therefore say ‘a university’.

 

[XennoX]

Yeah. lol. >_<

http://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/when-use-a

I think what Sinbad is trying to say is that you are saying it is vowel sounding when instead it is consonant sounding. Hence the reconsider.

 

[Eskomisaloser]

So many nazis....

Tell me about it, There are more comments on the word "an" than the article itself. :erm:

 

[OrbitalDawn]

I think what Sinbad is trying to say is that you are saying it is vowel sounding when instead it is consonant sounding. Hence the reconsider.

Yes, got that, thanks.

Brain is muddled.

 

[CR34M3]

So in short -- we care more about the use of "a" and "an" than whether someone commits an act of 'terrorism' against SANRAL.