The university allows URLs as a “person name”, so the spammer bots filled forms everywhere filling with my email and the spam URL as my name. So i’m getting bombarded by “legit” emails with a spam url as in “hi SPAM_URL”

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    5 months ago

    No although it should be, an is used in place of proceeding a vowel

    The correct usage is “a university” because the pronunciation of “university” begins with a consonant sound.

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      275 months ago

      an is used in place of proceeding a vowel

      Proceeding a vowel sound. The actual spelling is irrelevant.

      He was an honest man, an hourly worker, and an heir to the throne. He rode a unicorn to a university, and oddly he was a eunuch.

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        25 months ago

        Perfectly explains why so many officials say “today is an historic event”

        Not. Lol fuck these rules.

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          “an historic” only works in some accents. British, for example, pronounces it as “istoric”.

          Edit: un-mis-spelling

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            Weird… I pronounce it historic. Tomato tomato I guess.