If so, we would not get along.
Xbox 360
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The Xbox 360 is the second game console produced by Microsoft Corporation and is the successor to the original Xbox.
Does anybody say "A Xbox" as opposed to "An Xbox?"
@blackbird415 said:
I either say "an xbox" or "a 360" just sounds grammatically right
It's not that it sounds grammatically right, it's that it is grammatically right. You use 'an' before a word that starts with a vowel sound and 'a' before words that start with a consonant sound.
An elephant.
An apple.
An hour.
A dog.
A tent.
A historic. (You may notice that a lot of idiots speaking American English stupidly say the phrase "an historic", which is incorrect, while if you were speaking GB English, it would be proper, because they would pronounce the word as if the 'h' isn't there, making the initial sound a vowel instead of a consonant).
So this thread is essentially pointless, since it's simply asking if people grasp the English language or not.
@Branthog said:
@blackbird415 said:
I either say "an xbox" or "a 360" just sounds grammatically right
It's not that it sounds grammatically right, it's that it is grammatically right. You use 'an' before a word that starts with a vowel sound and 'a' before words that start with a consonant sound.
An elephant.
An apple.
An hour.
A dog.
A tent.
A historic. (You may notice that a lot of idiots speaking American English stupidly say the phrase "an historic", which is incorrect, while if you were speaking GB English, it would be proper, because they would pronounce the word as if the 'h' isn't there, making the initial sound a vowel instead of a consonant).
So this thread is essentially pointless, since it's simply asking if people grasp the English language or not.
I'm from Australia, we speak proper English (GB English). We still pronounce the H on the front of historic, the use of A and AN is interchangeable depending on context.
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