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> when preceding a consonant or a vowel. When preceding the sound of consonant or a vowel.
This is somewhat tautological, since consonants and vowels are already speech sounds.
Some examples:
* "He has an MBA" because "M" sounds like it starts with a vowel (here: "em").
* "a university" ("you-ni...")
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They say you never forget your first, but I’m not sure that’s true anymore as the combination of cloud VMs and graphical installers have reduced nearly all Linux installs to a couple mouse clicks.
Well, rest assured that for at least some noobies they will still remember their first. For me, it was ~ 2 - 3 years ago, I had just bought myself a new laptop. I knew what Linux was from some experience with a raspberry pi, and wanted to try it on my main machine, so I installed Fedora as a dual boot. I've only booted Windows on that(this) machine twice, and no longer have it installed. Edit: The installer itself wa…