(wiki: transcription checking) How to avoid falling into Early Buddhist fundamentalism / a very short transcript of a part of a Venerable Sujato’s Workshop

[Sabbe_Dhamma_Anatta]

Regarding OP:

There is a clearly audible “a” [not “an”, I think], in:

we don’t fall into 'a' … Early 
Buddhist fundamentalism. 

which I had previously changed to … [an] in “Final” version.



What I would like to ask is:

1. Is that “a” just a filler word?

(or)

2. If it is not a filler word, should I change the “a” to “an”.

On repeated listening, I get a sense that it may not be a filler word, and that “a” was used as “an”.

Together with @Javier’s explanation of:

@Javier

Now that we have so many EBTs,

Let me edit (as of now):

from …

fall into ' [an] ' Early Buddhist

to …

fall into ' a[n] ' Early Buddhist

It serves two things, imo.

1. preserving Bhante’s “a”
2. and ‘legitimately’ making it into “an”

like those modifications make by cunning journalists