No worries, hopefully I can make sense this time! I was responding to this part of the parent comment: > The a/an rules exist because they make it easier to s

No worries, hopefully I can make sense this time! I was responding to this part of the parent comment: > The a/an rules exist because they make it easier to speak. I disagree with that. I can understand how an english native speaker would feel that that's a natural conclusion though -- because they learned how to follow the rules at a very young age. The correct form is easier to a native speaker, because that's what they know. I'm not judging the rules / grammar. The rules are learned, but that doesn't assign a value to them.