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					Originally Posted by The_voice_of_reason
					
				 
				I have a really philisophical question "why is it a universe and not an universe?"      
			
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 Because 'a' and 'an' are usually defined by whether the noun's first letter sounds like a vowel. In this case it sounds like a Y.