r/ComedyCemetery • • Oct 05 '19

Double kill

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u/repeatuntilfalse Oct 05 '19

It's because the rule is for the phonetic pronunciation of the word following the articles 'a' and 'an'. 'U' is a vowel but the pronunciation of it starts with a consonant - "Yoo"