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Little Bill

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Actually, the rule isn't "an" if the next word starts with a vowel, it's if the next word starts with a vowel sound.


As an example, when a bystander aided a fellow citizen, it was an honorable act.

Well it's been a long time since English class, but you get my point. The words I see people put "an" in front of neither start with a vowel nor have the vowel sound.
Thanks for the clarification, I think I might have slept through that lesson anyway.:D
 

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NFPA has a dictionary?

Or did you mean "official dictionary of the NFPA"?:ashamed1:
I meant the NFPA's Manual of Style cites Merriam-Webster?s 11th Collegiate Edition as the dictionary of choice for defining terms that aren?t included in the Definition Sections of their various Standards.
 
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