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English: a vs an

Red Blob Games dug into a surprisingly thorny text-generation problem: choosing a or an correctly. The key is pronunciation, not spelling, so words like unicorn and hour break simple vowel checks. The project maps the exceptions and shows how rare they are in a 32,455-word list.

First reported 1 week, 1 day ago • procedural-text localization natural-language-generation ui-text
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English: a vs an

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