The Blue Book Of Grammar And Punctuation (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
This chapter lists some of these words, and other troublemakers. A A, AN Use a when the first letter of the word following has the sound of a consonant. Keep in mind that some vowels can sound like consonants, such as when they're sounded out as individual letters. Also, some letters, notably h and u, sometimes act as consonants (home, usual), other times as vowels (honest, unusual). Examples: a yearning a hotel a U-turn (pronounced “yoo”) a NASA study Use an when the first letter of the word following has the sound of a vowel. Examples: an unfair charge an honor (the h is silent) an HMO plan (H is pronounced “aitch”) an NAACP convention (the N is pronounced “en”) ABBREVIATION, ACRONYM This is a fine distinction that some consider nitpicking. Terms such as FBI, HMO, and NAACP, although widely called acronyms, are actually abbreviations. The difference is in how they are spoken. An abbreviation, also called an initialism, is pronounced letter by letter. An acronym is pronounced as if it were a word.
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