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Teo, 3 yr 355 days ago

A google search shows

a unique 172,000,000

an unique 2,220,000

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. 

 

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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

 

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Anonymous, 3 yr 297 days ago
a unique is verb
an Unique is noun
Anonymous, 3 yr 268 days ago

Hi,

Can you give me some cases of short "u" requiring "an" in front?

Mister Micawber  +  196711 Tue, 14 Feb 06 02:37 PM

an umbrella
an umbilical cord
an undershirt
an upper class twit
an ultraviolet transmogrifier


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Anonymous, 3 yr 268 days ago

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……  

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.

Anonymous, 3 yr 238 days ago

Ans is 2

because Unique starts with an Vowel

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