Here is an example sentence from a Collins dictionary on the word miss:
I could happily move back into a apartment if it wasn't for the fact that I'd miss my garden.
I haven't come across this before - the indefinite article a being used in front of words beginning with a - or have simply not noticed it. Since the dictionary entry on apartment uses an as indefinite article, I wonder whether in this case the use of a/an is optional or the use of a is to be considered a typo? (Googling a apartment yields some 400,000 hits, although not all of them relevant.)
I could happily move back into a apartment if it wasn't for the fact that I'd miss my garden.
I haven't come across this before - the indefinite article a being used in front of words beginning with a - or have simply not noticed it. Since the dictionary entry on apartment uses an as indefinite article, I wonder whether in this case the use of a/an is optional or the use of a is to be considered a typo? (Googling a apartment yields some 400,000 hits, although not all of them relevant.)
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