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Originally Posted by WikidPissah
Lola...In Treatment, an HBO series. Hmmm. Why am I usin "an" instead of "a" before "hbo"? H isn't a vowel. Are you supposed to use "an" before an acronym? Crap. I can't remember!
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That's because when you pronounce "H" you start with the vowel sound /eı/, and the choice of article follows that. For the same reason you'd write "a European country", because "European" starts with the consonant sound /j/.
English is
weird.
