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chronic disease, the tendency is that you get to be locked down by this disease The letter Y can be a vowel (as in the word cry or candy), or it can be a consonant (as in yellow). Vocalic sounds are basically vowels, but not in an alphabet point of view. A vowel, from the phonetic point of view, is a sound which once it's past the glottis, is not obstructed, i.e. it can pas* freely through the mouth. Vocalic sounds can vary from language to language, The usage is determined by the pronunciation and not by the spelling, as many people wrongly as*ume. It isn't before a vowel, it is before the vowel sound. Only before a vowel sound: One is pronouced won, Universal is pronounced you-niversal. It depends on how the word is pronounced, if the pronunciation sounds like a vowel use a if it does not use an You should say, therefore, “an hour” (because hour begins with a vowel sound) and “a history” (because history begins with a Similarly you should say “a union” even if union begins with a “u.” That is because the pronunciation begins with “yu”, which The sound in front of Unicorn is the consonant Y sound while umbrella is THE SHWA SOUND. Therefore we say an umbrela. That is why there is an An in front of herb in American English. Because it has a vowel sound. Depends on the vowel length - the difference is apparent in the examples you give. As a general guid it is that which sounds the most Some of us like to say an hotel - to show off that we know it is French and the aitch is silent.         The SCHWA is the vowel sound in many lightly pronounced unaccented syllables in words of more than one syllable. It is sometimes signified by the pronunciation uh or symbolized by an upside-down rotated E. A SCHWA sound can be represented by any vowel. In most dialects, for example, the schwa sound is found in the following words: > The A is schwa in ADEPT. The E is schwa in SYNTHESIS. The I is schwa > in DECIMAL. The O is schwa in HARMONY. The U is schwa in MEDIUM. The