From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" Date: 2011-10-30T07:47:34+09:00 Subject: Re: "A" and "an" articles in front of words 2011/10/29 Dave Aronson : > Ask yourself how you do it as a human.  You look at the first letter > to see if it's a vowel, right?  (Omitting for now some special cases > like h and y under certain circumstances.)  So how do you get the > first letter of a string? Not exactly: "a user" :) It's about the sound, not about the letter. -- Iñaki Baz Castillo