Salesforce Style Guide for Documentation and User Interface Text
jA, An
- Use a before words that start with a consonant or a “yew”
sound:
- A university
- A hacker
- Use an before words that start with a vowel or an unsounded
consonant:
- An hour
- An electrical engineer
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If an acronym is generally read as alphabetic
letters, choose the article according to the first letter:
- An API
- A URL
- Add a, an, the, and other articles for ease of reading, both in text and lists that consist of complete phrases.