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Old 2005-07-21, 03:26 PM   #29
Nick Koan
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Originally Posted by MikeSTI
I guess really was getting at how we say it vs. how it would be writin
yeah, basically. Its one of the few times that spoken language overrides the written as being the proper grammar.

But, for what its worth, I've had a few teachers argue that the correct grammar is to say "a STi" but they are few and far between compared to the teachers that would say "an STi"
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