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Originally Posted by Thyroid Help
media boy, sorry to bring this up, I have one minor problem with your grammar. (mine is not perfect at all but I thought I would bring this to your attention)
Your use of 'an' is nearly always wrong.
An is used before a word that starts with a vowel ie. an igloo, an apple an orange an exclusive etc etc.
A is used elsewhere ie. a HD channel a virgin customer a new channel..
Hope this helps and please dont take this personally its just a bit of advice to enhance my reading pleasure of your posts which I find very helpful!!
keep up the good work 
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Actually, whilst your post is mostly corrent, An is used before words that start with a vowel SOUND, not an actual vowel.
There's many cases of words that start with consonants where An is the appropriate word, such as "an hour", and words that start with vowels where A is the correct prefix, like "a united".
Like many words starting with H, HD is a special case which directly depends on the pronunciation of the letter H, many people will pronounce H with a h sound, as in heyatch, others with an a sound, as in aytch. In the latter An is correct.