r/confidentlyincorrect 19d ago

Tik Tok A infinite glitch

Red is a idiot

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u/Pedantichrist 19d ago

A vs an is one of the few instances in English where there is no rule, you do whatever sounds right in your dialect.

An hotel is right for some, a hotel is right for others. It is a matter of the individual’s subjective taste.

I disagree with the person in the post, but de gustibus non disputandum est applies here.

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u/polypolip 19d ago

you would have to pronounce infinite as nfinite to make it make sense.

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u/Pedantichrist 19d ago

This is not the point (and I would always say ‘an infinite’ myself), but if I say ‘nfinite’ it sounds pretty much exactly like ‘infinite’.