"a" or "an"

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Post January 13th, 2010, 3:39 pm

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How about instead of a or an Hawaiian party, he could just call it THE Hawaiian party. Of the century. Be there, or be square.

Problem solved ...
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Post January 13th, 2010, 3:39 pm

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Post January 15th, 2010, 10:52 am

For future reference, my mothers side of the family are all hawaiian, and they pronounce the "H". So I would assume by grammatical principle, that's "a Hawaiian party"
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Post January 15th, 2010, 1:29 pm

Did you read back at all mfs? :P
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Post January 15th, 2010, 1:48 pm

meh, 3 pages was kinda crazy to read through. I saw the first page and then posted. what can I say, I'm a lazy a$$ :)
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Post April 8th, 2010, 6:36 am

A Hawaiian is correct, I don't know where you live that you consider H a silent letter:-)

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