eli5 Why, in English Grammer, is it always an “an” before an acronym? Even if the acronym doesn’t start with a vowel?

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eli5 Why, in English Grammer, is it always an “an” before an acronym? Even if the acronym doesn’t start with a vowel?

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It isn’t, and I don’t know why you think it is.

A lot of acronyms start with vowel sounds, so you’d say something like “an MVP” because that sounds like “an emm vee pee” out loud.

But for an acronym that starts with a consonant sound, like VIP, it’s “A VIP,” not “An VIP”