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Old 06-01-2013 | 12:32 PM
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Originally Posted by soon2bfo
Since you brought it up,



From Purdue OWL: Articles: A versus An

"...The choice of article is actually based upon the phonetic (sound) quality of the first letter in a word, not on the orthographic (written) representation of the letter."

Thank you soon2b. I knew that saying "an RJ" had to be correct, if for no other reason than "a RJ" sounds onerous and trips up the tongue.

Thanks for the research.
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