minus-squaremozingo@lemmy.worldtoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: Use ‘a’ when the word starts with a _consonant sound_, and ‘an’ when it starts with a _vowel sound_linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-212 hours agoAlso interesting, in Ukrainian, the U is pronounced “oo”, so if we said it the way they did, it would be “an Ukraine”. linkfedilink
minus-squaremozingo@lemmy.worldtoYou Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK: Use ‘a’ when the word starts with a _consonant sound_, and ‘an’ when it starts with a _vowel sound_linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-212 hours agoOh, here I see the problem, the N isn’t supposed to be there! It’s supposed to be “A nice napple!” linkfedilink
Also interesting, in Ukrainian, the U is pronounced “oo”, so if we said it the way they did, it would be “an Ukraine”.