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    2 months ago

    Guess your job doesn’t involve saving the lives of hundreds of pregnant women and their babies. I guess if everything you’ve done over the past 10 years was ripped out and thrown away it would destroy nothing of value and you wouldn’t care. And if we hired a bunch of goons to attack you every time you were online and threaten you in person it would have no affect on your mental health. But she did, it was, and it did for her.





  • They do, (thanks, Arrkk) and that’s a better answer.

    But the schoolmarm in me brings me back to tell you that, because of the “y-” in the way “union” is pronounced, standard usage is “a union” even though it starts with a vowel. The reason we use “an” is to avoid an awkward slide from the a to the vowel, but in words that start with the “you-” sound it’s not necessary.

    A ugly bastard An ugly bastard

    A onion An onion

    An unicorn A unicorn

    That’s me done, and a gold star to you on catching my original error!