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Adinnieken said:

The use of "a" or "an" is based on the phonetic.  X in Xbox therefore phonetically is "ex".  Thus, "a" for Hero but "an" for herb.

Didn't learn or know that one until I sometime recently (past year or so) finally looked it up because people were using it correctly in some places and incorrectly in others and it annoyed me.  As I mentioned to one of my fellow students, my writing has improved more due to communicating on forums than I ever got from a class.

Thanks... I got it... really useful.