"a" and "an"

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	Teo  #160174  Fri, 18 Nov 05 10:28 PM A google search shows a unique 172,000,000 an unique 2,220,000    Teo Joined on Tue, Sep 28 2004 Taiwan Contributing Member (1,614) Thank you very much for your reply.

	My2sense  #160176  Fri, 18 Nov 05 10:39 PM It's  'A' not 'an ' ...  you don't say -  it's AN unique situation, he's AN unique person.  You say- it's A unique situation and he's A unique person.       My2sense Joined on Sun, Nov 13 2005 europe Full Member (154)

	MrPedantic  #176793  Sat, 31 Dec 05 12:30 AM  Teo wrote: A google search shows a unique 172,000,000 an unique 2,220,000 Given the large number of typos we usually find on webpages, I'm surprised it's such a small percentage (just over 1%) for "an unique". MrP      MrPedantic Joined on Tue, Oct 12 2004 Veteran Member (12,053) ...opella forensis / adducit febris...
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	Anonymous  #183995  Mon, 16 Jan 06 11:00 AM a unique is verb an Unique is noun    Anonymous
Verbs, Nouns

	Anonymous  #196701  Tue, 14 Feb 06 02:07 PM Hi, Can you give me some cases of short "u" requiring "an" in front?    Anonymous

	Mister Micawber  #196711  Tue, 14 Feb 06 02:37 PM an umbrella an umbilical cord an undershirt an upper class twit an ultraviolet transmogrifier    Mister Micawber Joined on Wed, Aug 4 2004 Yokohama Veteran Member (21,305) 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master-- that's all.'

	Anonymous  #196802  Tue, 14 Feb 06 07:23 PM I can only think of “um-brel’la”. There aren’t too many word starting with a “U” that requires an article “an”. But an “A” is used for the following words: university, unicorn, union, unit and a “used car”etc……      Anonymous
Articles, Universities

	MrPedantic  #196870  Wed, 15 Feb 06 12:06 AM An ugly sister. An untoward incident. An unexpected consequence. An unhappy compromise. An utterly miserable existence. An understandable decision. An undignified exit down a drainpipe in the dead of night. An unfortunate miscalculation. An undertaker.    MrPedantic

	Anonymous  #206696  Thu, 16 Mar 06 10:49 AM Ans is 2 because Unique starts with an Vowel    Anonymous
Vowels