While we're on the subject of obscure grammatical edge-cases...

According to the rules, a word beginning with a vowel should be prefixed 
with "an", otherwise it's just "a":

   A cat.
   An elephant.

The idea - apparently - is that it's awkward to move from the sound of 
"a" to the sound of "e" without an intervining consonant.

Now consider:

   A Europian.

Technically, according to the rules, this should in fact be

   An Europian.

which just sounds silly...

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