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> It’s definitely about vowel sounds

Exactly, and Nvidia begins with an e sound.

And we say "a union" because it begins with a y sound and not because it begins with the letter u.

In the UK, people do say "a herb", but that's because we pronounce the h: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/herb#Pronunciation




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