User:Jnestorius/Rules for indefinite article An

Use "an" where the word starts with a vowel sound, not necessarily a vowel spelling.

A apple aorta aura awful art
E end eat either
- Eu euphoria Europe from Greek
  - Euler from German
- Ew ewe ewer
  - Ewald's sphere from German
I ill idiot: even for i<v> (as opposed to j<v>) Iago? Iosco County, Michigan? iatrogenic iodine ion Iowa Iolanthe Iona iota
- Ionesco, Ion Iliescu from Romanian
- Ioannina from Greek
- Ieuan Wyn Jones from Welsh
O on out oat oil odd order
- one once irregular
- Oaxaca from Spanish
- Ou<v> always? French ouija Ouachita Ouimet Ouagadougou Ouida Ouest-France
- Oi- if French Oise
U up uh um under utter ugly
- U<c><v> unit ukelele Uganda Uruguay? Ulysses
  - ux- uxorious
  - Up- Un- upend unused
  - Ubangi Urumqi Upanishad Umayyad Uluru exotic loanwords
- Uighur
  - Uitlander Afrikaans
  - Uelzen German
  - Ueno Japanese, 2 syllables.
  - Uillean pipes, Irish
- Ustinov? Ukraine?
- Ueberroth?
- Uinta Mountains? apparently uintasurus is yoo-inta
Uachtarán from Irish
- uakari Uaxactun, Ueuecoyotl from Spanish
- Uaboe,Nauru
- Uasin Gishu District Kenya?
Y<c> ylang-ylang yttrium Ypsilanti words exotic but rule is standard
- Y<v> yes yellow
  - Yemanja?
Hour, Hono(u)r, Heir, Honest, (Herbal) only common French words
- Historic, Hotel unstressed first syllable, French-origin

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