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No, "an" is correct, since the next word begins with a vocal sound.
Although it would be funny if that’s just a troll.
"Trolling is a art" is an ancient meme. Kind of the internet equivalent of a Dad joke, which makes the downvotes pretty funny, given the comment I was replying to!
So my instinct was right but my judgement was not.
You're lying. You're only supposed to use "an" before an word that begins with an consonant.
Of course. Silly me. I‘m not an native speaker, so excuse my mistake.
No you were correct. Commenter above was joking or maybe just wrong. It should be “an apple,” “a pear,” etc.
Your written English is better than most native speakers.
what I love about it is that it isn't exactly "when the following word starts with a vowel", but rather when it sounds like it starts with a vowel, regardless if it does or not.
my favourite example is "herbs". In some versions of English, you say her-buh, so it would be "a herb". Some parts of the world, the 'h' is silent, so it's pronounced "erb", and would "an herb".
that concludes today's language lesson!