Programmatically determine whether to describe an object with “a” or “an”?

Question

I have a database of nouns (ex \"house\", \"exclamation point\", \"apple\") that I need to output and describe in my application. It\'s hard to put together a natural-soundi

Answer 1

Make an array with vowels in it. Check if the first letter of the word you are checking is in the vowel array. Will work except when dealing with acronyms.