I remember at school there was a combined volume of "Billy Liar" and "The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner" ubiquitous to the "English Rooms". I thought the latter to be the better story, better written; but

There's very little more pitiful than a white man trying to be black to please a black audience. Why is that? With me its the same thing with black people trying to be white. You mean the ones dating and slicing the blondes? Thats why Im so

: So how does the rule on "u" and "a" or "an" work (or all the vowels for that matter)? Why is it a university, but an umbilical cord? Because of the pronunciation, not the spelling. University is pronounced