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Revision as of 05:39, 2 February 2013
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an was the Old English word for "one".
=phonology=- a [ə] is used before a consonant sound (a quarter note, a half note, a whole note, a holy otter)
- a [ə] is also used before glides (semi-vowels) like /w/ and /j/ (a week, a one-day layover, a year, a uniform, a use [ju:s]
- an [ən, æn] is used before a vowel sound (an 8th note, an old note, an utter silence, another sound )
- Curious dialectal phenomenon: a whole other story often becomes: a whole 'nother story. (in North Central American)
- a lot = beaucoup, a lot of = beaucoup de
- A funny article: [http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.fr/2010/04/alot-is-better-than-you-at-everything.html Alot is better than you at everything]
1In modern grammar, articles are said to "determine" nouns, along with other words once considered to be adjectives, but now are considered to be determiners (possessives for example: your, her, our, his, their, my; quantifiers: any, many, no, some...). =indefinite determiner= [[Category: 100-en]]
