Timeline for Does a word that starts with a vowel letter start with a vowel sound?
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| May 30, 2017 at 16:54 | vote | accept | user229302 | ||
| Apr 8, 2017 at 18:46 | comment | added | herisson | @Clare: phonetically it is like a vowel, but an English language learner should be careful to avoid thinking of it as a vowel sound for the purposes of English phonological rules. "An university" is non-standard in modern English and I find it hard to think of a situation in which it would benefit a non-native speaker to use this instead of "a university". | |
| Apr 8, 2017 at 18:38 | comment | added | Arm the good guys in America | @sumelic yes but /j/in those words is a glide or semi-vowel, it's very much like a vowel; which is why some people use, or have used, an before them, as in an university. | |
| Apr 8, 2017 at 16:11 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 8, 2017 at 16:03 | answer | added | tchrist♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 8, 2017 at 15:57 | answer | added | Fil J. Cosentino | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 8, 2017 at 15:47 | comment | added | herisson | It's not a safe assumption. Many words starting with the letters "u" or "eu" start with the consonant sound /j/; see Is it “a uniform” or “an uniform”? | |
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| Apr 8, 2017 at 15:38 | history | asked | user229302 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |