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

I've written a PHP port of the popular JS a-vs-an code as described in this stackoverflow post https://stackoverflow.com/a/1288473/1526020.

Github page: https://github.com/UseAllFive/a-vs-an.

E.g.

$result = $aVsAn->query('0800 number');
print_r($result);

Returns

Array
(
    [aCount] => 8
    [anCount] => 25
    [prefix] => 08
    [article] => an
)