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Funnily enough, I just heard an American from Minnesota say "a elephant" last week. I know that I've occasionally used "a" [@] before a vowel too - maybe only with a slight hesitation though. Michael Johnstone On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Ball Martin J wrote: > Whereas I would have [Di] and [@n] in (unstressed) pre-vocalic position, > local usage is to have [D@] and [@] for both pre-vocalic and pre-consonantal > positions - so 'a elephant' is quite acceptable.