An Xbox, an LG, an SGI#56
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In English, Xbox is pronounced /ˈɛks bɒks/, which begins with a vowel sound and thus should be preceded by 'an' rather than 'a'. Contrast with the other extant OS starting with an X: Xerox, which is pronounced /ˈzɛ.ɹɒks/ and is preceded by 'a'.
SGI starts with /ɛs/ LG starts with /ɛl/ Both are usually pronounced by spelling out the names. I did not include HP because <h> can be pronounced /eɪt͡ʃ/ or /heɪt͡ʃ/ depending on the dialect of the speaker.
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I was puttin' around mastodon when I encountered your bot and had a laugh. When I was looking at some of the other images, I was struck by how "a xbox" sounded ungrammatical to me. This PR includes fixes for all the names that are pronounced with a leading vowel sound. I'm a linguist (as if this matters lol) and an L1 English speaker, but you can also refer to this citation I cribbed straight from wikipedia: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/using_articles.html
Anyways thank you for putting this bot together and putting the source code online!