Programmatically determine whether to describe an object with "a" or "an"?

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Published on 2010-12-29T22:29:49Z Indexed on 2010/12/29 22:54 UTC
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I have a database of nouns (ex "house", "exclamation point", "apple") that I need to output and describe in my application. It's hard to put together a natural-sounding sentence to describe an item without using "a" or "an" - "a house is BIG", "an exclamation point is SMALL", etc.

Is there any function, library, or hack i can use in PHP to determine whether it is more appropriate to describe any given noun with A or AN?

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