Claiming my second blog so I can hopefully make a little money with PayPerPost

an euphonious keeps you smart. This is another one of those wonderful randomly generated sentences PayPerPost had me copy and paste into a new post for this blog in order to be sure it is my blog so I can claim it as my blog. And, ideally, start generating some additional income from my blogging. And if you wondered why the font size and style and color are all different from the previous post in this blog, it's because I literally copied the sentence above from the PayPerPost site; and when I pasted it, it remained like this and every subsequent sentence has remained like this. I could change it. But I want it visible as what it is: a post that may or may not stay once I've claimed this blog.

Having said all that, I find it a little ironic that the random sentence PayPerPost generated for me to insert into this post on my writing blog (which I'm also in the process of considering morphing into a new blog to launch my quest to become the next George Plimpton) is, oddly, grammatically incorrect. How so? Even though there is an old school writing technique rule of thumb which states: as a general rule, when choosing an article in a sentence, choose the article "a" for words that begin with a consonant (like the letter "T" for example); but, choose the article "an" for words that begin with a vowel (like the letter "E" for example).

But, the old school rule of thumb has two not-unimportant exceptions: When the vowel at the beginning of a word sounds or acts like a consonant, choose the article "an" instead. And, the corollary to that: When the consonant at the beginning of the word sounds or acts like a vowel, choose the article "a" instead. So...in the case of the word "euphonious" listed above, the "eu" vowel pair pronunciation sounds like a hard "Y" (as in the similar word "euphoria") so, technically speaking, the grammatically correct article should have been "a" instead.

(Unless euphonious were pronounced with a long "oo" sound, as in "moo" or "soup", in which case "an" would indeed be the correct article to choose.)