On Aug 29, 6:30 am, Minh Nguyen <nguyenmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
>
> and you can safely put "a" before a number whose spelling begins with
> a consonant. However, depends on where you are, people do say "an
> hundred-cochain" with a silent "h", even though at least in Australia
> it's "a hundred-cochain" where the letter "h" is not silent in
> pronunciation.
Forgive the link to Wikipedia, but the following seems like a decent
explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_and_an#Discrimination_between_a_and_an
regards
john perry
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