From: Peter Humphrey <prh@gotadsl.co.uk>
To: gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Re: cvs commit: quick-samba-howto.xml
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 13:59:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43412B26.5060909@gotadsl.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051003015545.0c0db099.rane@gentoo.org>
Łukasz Damentko wrote:
> blackace and AllanonJL (both native speakers as well) say it's "a FAQ"
> not "an FAQ", so we have 2:1 for now...
It's not a matter of votes, but of whether the abbreviation is also an
acronym, i.e. whether it can be pronounced as a word. In this case it can,
and I believe it usually is, so it's "a FAQ", not "an F A Q".
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Peter Humphrey
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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
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 [this message]
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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