I'm afraid if I pronounced it as "an EARL", someone would come up behind me
and do the Heimlich maneuver...
Marlon
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 1:44 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: URL grammar
>
> y'know what? (not that this topic hasn't already been beaten to
> death)...
>
> I think that the word preceding the letters 'URL' would probably actually
> lead me in how I pronounce it.
>
> If I see "a URL", I'd probably read it as "a YOO-ARE-EL" (who,
> coincidentally enough, was Superman's third cousin on his mother's side).
> If I see "an URL", I'd probably read it as "an EARL".
>
> Maybe I just have little to no resistance to the powers of
suggestion...but
> now that I think about it, I really do believe that my pronunciation of
the
> 'URL' would be dependent on whether or not an 'a' or an 'an' preceded
> it.
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