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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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