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	MrPedantic + 118124 Wed, 13 Jul 05 11:20 PM Oh! Your capital has turned out strangely, Pieanne! MrP MrPedantic Joined on Tue, Oct 12 2004 Veteran Member 13,616 ...opella forensis / adducit febris...


	pieanne + 118610 Fri, 15 Jul 05 03:23 PM And now phonetics turn into emoticons... pieanne Joined on Thu, Jan 20 2005 South of France ...But I'm Belgian! Veteran Member 7,517 I'm glad to help, but I'm not a native! And please excuse my typos...

Anonymous, 4 yr 20 days ago

I believe a unique is correct because unique is not capitalized, and unique is an improper noun. Yes [Y]


	MrPedantic + 149589 Wed, 19 Oct 05 11:39 PM Rather a harsh judgement, Anon. (You're not thinking of "eunuch"? They can be quite improper. Well, verbally, anyway.) MrP MrPedantic

My Shadow +

153709 Tue, 01 Nov 05 12:06 AM

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I think A UNIQUE is correct because UNIQUE starts a long "U"
sound so "U" isn't a vowel sound in here

My Shadow

Joined on Mon, Oct 31 2005

istanbul , TURKEY

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Vowels

Anonymous, 4 yr 5 days ago

an unique


	pieanne + 154827 Thu, 03 Nov 05 05:38 PM I'm afraid it's "a"... pieanne

Anonymous, 3 yr 355 days ago

A unique because it is vowel sound word.


	pieanne + 160097 Fri, 18 Nov 05 06:36 PM More like a "y" sound: a yolk, a young man, etc... pieanne

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