| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Incorrect use of "an" and "a" in code comments and docs |
| Date: | 2018-03-29 19:29:24 |
| Message-ID: | 20180329192924.GH16165@momjian.us |
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On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 07:42:40PM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 6:51 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > At 2018-03-05 14:42:14 +0900, michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz wrote:
> >> > - sinval is a signal invalidation, so it seems to me that "a" is
> >> > correct, not "an".
> >
> > I guess it depends on whether you read it as "sin-val" or "ess-inval".
>
> $ git grep ' a SQL ' | wc -l
> 642
> $ git grep ' an SQL ' | wc -l
> 219
>
> /me grabs popcorn
I am planning to look into this, and will convert to "an" in my proposed
patch.
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