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  • what I love about it is that it isn't exactly "when the following word starts with a vowel", but rather when it sounds like it starts with a vowel, regardless if it does or not.

    my favourite example is "herbs". In some versions of English, you say her-buh, so it would be "a herb". Some parts of the world, the 'h' is silent, so it's pronounced "erb", and would "an herb".

    that concludes today's language lesson!

  • for those who haven't read the woman's FB post, here is a clip:

    "..were attacked on Saturday night by a group of 7-10+ middle eastern men, believed to be from Syria, aged 18-25"

    Canada has a lot of issues at this moment, stemming in part from increased immigration in the last 3 years (causing housing issues, etc). This sort of event, "brown people beating up white women" could be a dangerous racial catalyst.

    I hope this gets dealt with as a single incident, but given current affairs, I am not optimistic.