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Old February 21, 2011, 03:30 AM
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Originally Posted by irmamar View Post
A utterance or an utterance?

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Depends how you pronounce the 'u'

If correctly, always 'an'

By the way. Notice the double consonant 'tt' - this means the 'u' is short, as in (can't think of a word) ah yes - country.

Note the word uterus - only one 't' thus pronounced yooterus, so it would be 'a uterus'

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