| From: | David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Isaac Morland <isaac(dot)morland(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: "an SQL" vs. "a SQL" |
| Date: | 2021-06-10 23:26:28 |
| Message-ID: | CAApHDvpJTCPwQ+YSLUmPkj-gVtVU+waYdDjJ7TSWzzgxFL1cNQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 at 02:48, Isaac Morland <isaac(dot)morland(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 at 10:43, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> - requires an MIT Kerberos installation and opens TCP/IP listen sockets.
>> + requires a MIT Kerberos installation and opens TCP/IP listen sockets.
>>
>> I think all of these should use "a" rather than "an".
>
>
> “A MIT …”? As far as I know it is pronounced M - I - T, which would imply that it should use “an”. The following page seems believable and is pretty unequivocal on the issue:
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> https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/como_se_dice/
Opps. I'm not sure what I was thinking there. I'd just been listening
to something in German, so maybe I'd had the German word in mind
instead.
David
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