> European starts with a vowel in spelling, but actually phonerically begins with a consonant Ah makes sense. In my head it's never "you"ropean, but "ew" urop

> European starts with a vowel in spelling, but actually phonerically begins with a consonant Ah makes sense. In my head it's never "you"ropean, but "ew" uropean as I'm not a native english speaker and phonetically it's a consonant in english only. In greek, slavic languages, german or latin-derived it's always "ew".