From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RKizA-00067k-03 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:56:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BDE8B21C035 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:56:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qproxy.gmail.com (qproxy.gmail.com [72.14.204.195]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j932V3ma021328 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 02:31:04 GMT Received: by qproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id d9so482859qbd for ; Sun, 02 Oct 2005 19:39:04 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=aBZBq53wJvJpcSnV99n53UkQKG4xk6YT/86gywTiUkgWbbByYTWsppGn/1krRwvTTIsj7eFhXHG8s1p0koOYd/EoqyGKEMf+Jxgg1vC7pXEMRCG9eDOKdSoM8dIy8x3K9oyi/qPVRmGzOW/qylXlfM6b1Q/mS2Z/bq26DkEgT7k= Received: by 10.65.116.13 with SMTP id t13mr2302032qbm; Sun, 02 Oct 2005 19:39:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.84.8 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 19:39:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 19:39:04 -0700 From: Jack Dark To: gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-doc] Re: cvs commit: quick-samba-howto.xml In-Reply-To: <43408459.4020007@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-doc@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-doc@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline References: <200510022118.j92LIYXr029211@robin.gentoo.org> <43406C9D.1040300@gentoo.org> <434070F6.5020505@gentoo.org> <20051003015545.0c0db099.rane@gentoo.org> <43408459.4020007@gentoo.org> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j932V3ma021328 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 49096187-131b-4b39-97a8-293870f486a1 X-Archives-Hash: 4050026ddfc18c0395a8c48b93e7effb It is "an FAQ". I'm a native en_US speaker, though I'm much more of a stickler for correct phonetics than most. But even so, I think most en_US speakers also say "an FAQ", because we say it phonetically: "eff ay cue". That's the correct way of saying it in US English. On 10/2/05, Curtis Napier wrote: > =A3ukasz Damentko wrote: > > On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 01:44:54 +0200 > > Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: > > > > > >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >>Hash: SHA1 > >> > >>Alin Dobre wrote: > >> > >>>the last time this was discussed via irc, ciaranm (who is a native e= n_GB > >>>speaker) said that the correct form is: "an FAQ", the explanation be= ing > >>>that FAQ it's spelled: ef a q, so it phonetically begins with a voca= l, > >>>so it should be prefixed with 'an'. > > > > > > blackace and AllanonJL (both native speakers as well) say it's "a FAQ= " > > not "an FAQ", so we have 2:1 for now... > > > > with regards, > > =A3ukasz Damentko > > > 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. :-) > > For reference see here: > http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/a.html#a > > or here: > http://www.drgrammar.org/faqs/#36 > -- > gentoo-doc@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- - thought - emotion - imagery - http://www.freewebs.com/nightmorph/ --=20 gentoo-doc@gentoo.org mailing list