English: A vs. An
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- The rule for using 'a' versus 'an' depends on the spoken word's initial sound, not the written letter.
- Examples: 'a unicorn' (starts with a consonant Y sound) and 'an hour' (starts with a vowel OW sound).
- The author investigated how often these exceptions occur in a list of 32,455 words.
- Only 129 words in the list required exceptions to the standard rule.
- The author spent a day analyzing data and building visualizations for the findings.
- The author notes that in hindsight, using LLMs could have saved time on code, but the code was one-off and correct.