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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a ounce" is not correct in written English.
The correct expression is "an ounce" due to the vowel sound that follows.
Example: "I need to measure out an ounce of sugar for the recipe."
Alternatives: "one ounce" or "a single ounce".
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In the commodities market, silver fell 7.6 percent to $42.585 a ounce after a 5.2 percent drop on Monday.
Dried toad goes for $42 a ounce, deer tail about $350 apiece, and abalone $428 a pound, a Mother's Day special.
(In 2002, he requested that the song "Good Times," by Styles P, be played over the Fenway Park P.A. system before one of his at-bats, and unsuspecting fans were treated to lyrics such as "Every day I need a ounce and a half... take a blunt, just to ease the pain... I get high, high, high").
New Zealand do not have a patent on wearing black and should stop talking rubbish about disrespect as they don't seem to have a ounce of respect for Northern Hemisphere rugby.
Apparently without a ounce of dignity, he proudly waved a Confederate flag totem amid a crowd of peace-loving Foresters.
Eating a ounce of hard or string cheese is a great snack for the induction phase.
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It's up from a low of $271 an ounce to around $300 an ounce.
It is a performance without an ounce of emotional slop.
By 2009, gold was nearly a thousand dollars an ounce.
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