In English, the name of the letter is the long A sound, pronounced / ˈeɪ /. Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. The earliest known ancestor of A is …

Learn to recognize the upper and lowercase letter A, how to write the letter A and the short and long vowel sounds that letter A makes. This series incorporates the modalities of visual,...

Several young adults spoke about this at Monday’s Eau Claire City Council meeting during public comment. Madison students from several schools walked out of class Wednesday to protest the …

At the present time the letter represents six principal vowel sounds: (1) its original value, the low back vowel, as in father; (2) an intermediate vowel, as in plan; (3) a closer vowel, further fronted, as in …

On Windows, you can type “a” with an accent mark in several ways, depending on your keyboard layout and operating system version. The most common method is to use the “Alt” key and numeric keypad …

2 days ago · From Middle English a, an, from Old English ān (“one; a; lone; sole”). More at one. The "n" was gradually lost before consonants in almost all dialects by the 15th century. Cognate with …

English Easy Learning Grammar When do you use 'a' and 'an' in English? A or an is the indefinite article. The form an is used before a word that starts with a vowel sound. The ... Read more. A or an …

Before a consonant sound represented by a vowel letter a is usual. but an also occurs though less frequently now than formerly. Before unstressed or weakly stressed syllables with initial h both a and …

Used before nouns and noun phrases that denote a single but unspecified person or thing: a region; a person. 2. Used before terms that denote number, amount, quantity, or degree: only a few of the …

any spoken sound represented by the letter A or a, as in bake, hat, father, or small. something having the shape of an A . a written or printed representation of the letter A or a. a device, as a printer's …