From: Shyam Mani <fox2mike@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Re: cvs commit: quick-samba-howto.xml
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:51:57 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4340B1E5.70702@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43408459.4020007@gentoo.org>
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Curtis Napier wrote:
> Yes indeed, ciaran is correct. You go by the "sound" not by the
> spelling. That's why we say "an honor" instead of "a honor" (the h is
> silent). But in the case of FAQ he is incorrect because it's pronounced
> fa-ack not ef-ack. Silly en_GB speakers. :-)
Ummm, we pronounce it af eff a que. Not Fak. It is an acronym and eff a
que is how you say it :) So, he's right and it is an FAQ.
> http://www.drgrammar.org/faqs/#36
And from the above site...
According to The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style, "The
indefinite article a is used before words beginning with a consonant
sound, including /y/ and /w/ sounds. The other form, an, is used before
words beginning with a vowel sound. Hence, a European country, a Ouija
board, a uniform, an FBI agent...
We say Eff Bee Eye agent, not Fubby agent or EffBee or EffBye, right? So
it's Eff A Que :) not fack or you know where I'm going :p
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[not found] <200510022118.j92LIYXr029211@robin.gentoo.org>
2005-10-02 23:26 ` [gentoo-doc] Re: cvs commit: quick-samba-howto.xml Alin Dobre
2005-10-02 23:44 ` Ioannis Aslanidis
2005-10-02 23:55 ` Łukasz Damentko
2005-10-03 1:07 ` Curtis Napier
2005-10-03 2:39 ` Jack Dark
2005-10-03 4:14 ` Curtis Napier
2005-10-03 4:21 ` Shyam Mani [this message]
2005-10-03 4:43 ` Curtis Napier
2005-10-03 5:30 ` Marc Serra
2005-10-03 6:02 ` Shyam Mani
2005-10-03 8:24 ` Ioannis Aslanidis
2005-10-03 13:06 ` Peter Humphrey
2005-10-04 2:00 ` Jack Dark
2005-10-03 12:59 ` Peter Humphrey
2005-10-03 4:17 ` Shyam Mani
2005-10-03 13:18 ` Peter Humphrey
2005-10-04 16:15 ` Sven Vermeulen
2005-10-04 21:58 ` Xavier Neys
2005-10-05 15:48 ` Sven Vermeulen
2005-10-05 9:15 Trembleau, Alain
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