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The rule currently used by the template is to put an an in front if and only if the word starts with an a, e, i, o or u, and to put an a in otherwise. The rule is, of course, flawed. It leads to things like a hour, an euro, a honour, an unicorn, a 8-day trip, a 11th-hour decision, etc.
The problem can be fixed by accounting for these exceptions; however, there are two problems with this solution.
The first problem won't go away (until we've gone through the whole dictionary), we can only try our best. There are, though, a couple of things which are going to make the going even more difficult than it might seem at first glance.
The second problem has a multiple aspects.
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for "English", and set it to us
to get an herb.Jimp 09:42, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
Module:A or an/testcases has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the module's entry on the Templates for discussion page. * Pppery * it has begun... 15:40, 17 February 2020 (UTC)