On 5 October 2017 at 14:22, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> The A and E in the word "are" are not vowels, since they are silent. The U > in "unicorn" and "university" are not vowels either, and if you write "an > unicorn" you are making a mistake. > There are dialects of English where the "u" in unicorn or university would be pronounced "oo" (e.g. where heavily influenced by Spanish or Portuguese), in which case writing "an unicorn" would not necessarily be a mistake. For a similar example, I and most Australians would say that writing "an herb" is a mistake since we pronounce the "h", but millions of people elsewhere would disagree with us. Tim Delaney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
