On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 07:05:54PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:58:59AM -0800, James A. Treacy wrote: > > Can you at least tell us the preferred form for English? > > "the Hurd" is the correct form.
"Are you THE Zaphod Beeblebrox", asked the pink winged creature. "No, I'm just A Zaphod Beeblebrox. Didn't you hear I come in 6 packs now?" - Slightly paraphrased from Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams. Of course, standard English says that any word starting with 'h' should be considered to have started with a vowel for grammatical purposes. "I run an Hurd system, you run an hurd...." -- I am a Unitarian *Universalist* - RUAUU2? =)