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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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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-31  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [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
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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