[Raw Msg Headers][Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: web page?



On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 05:05:24PM -0700, Daryle A. Tilroe wrote:
> Since this just made me look at the website :-) I have
> to say that I would use "an SMTP ..." rather than
> "a SMTP ...".  Call me picky :-).  Here is a link:
>     http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutgrammar/an
> 
> Note the 'SAS' example.
> Sorry again; it just leapt out at me. :D

  Yes.  That has bothered me a long time.  My reflex reaction has been
  "an SMTP", but then a small voice comes and says "leads by consonant",
  which per those rules isn't all that simple thing...

> Daryle A. Tilroe
-- 
/Matti Aarnio	<mea@nic.funet.fi>
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe zmailer" in
the body of a message to majordomo@nic.funet.fi