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English hack of the day: The hidden rule behind ‘a’ and ‘an’ that has nothing to do with vowels
For most of our school lives, we were told a neat little rule: use ‘a’ before words beginning with consonants and ‘an’ before words beginning with vowels. It sounded simple, almost soothingly ...
How many vowels does English have? Five, right? A, E, I, O, U. Oh, and sometimes Y. So, six? Actually, English has at least 14 different vowel sounds and, depending on the speaker and dialect, maybe ...
To play this video you need to enable JavaScript. This is the third of seven short vowel programmes in our series of videos that explore the sounds of English. This is the seventh of seven short vowel ...
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