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The article "a" precedes words that begin with a consonant sound. The article "an" precedes words that begin with a vowel sound. This is generally just to avoid the "uh uh" or "uh ih" of consecutive schwa sounds, or "uh oh" for the long O sound.

The word specialist starts with the paired consonant SP, so it uses the article "a" not an.

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