| From: | Isaac Morland <isaac(dot)morland(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | David Rowley <dgrowleyml(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 14:48:11 |
| Message-ID: | CAMsGm5ejX-qS+siOBv4JxOk=BYi_COag+dx8OusPoydFo+PoTQ@mail.gmail.com |
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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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