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a French; an American; a Brit, or a British sounds casual but correct to me

• traceroute66 6mo ago
  > sounds casual but correct to me I don't care if it "sounds ok to me". If you're going to make statements like that to go against what I've written then at least come up with some viable citations to grammar literature. Honestly, in all my years on this earth I have never, ever heard anybody in any English speaking country I've spent time in say "a French" "a American" "a British". And that amounts to a lot of time surrounded by people speaking VERY "casual" English. P.S. I said "an American" was ok if you re-read.. an NOT a
  • MarceColl 6mo ago
    The reason you can say "an American" has nothing to do with a vowel or not, there are just some demonyms that for some reason can be used like this, and some that can't. For example: * German is countable: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/german_2 https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis... * French is uncountable: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/french_2 https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis... * American is countable: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/american_1?q=American https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis... * Spanish is uncountable: https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/spanish_2 https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis... But your explanation about why it is correct is bullshit, has nothing to do with "an" vs "a", the English language is just inconsistent as fuck and some demonyms can be used like this and some can't.