And AFAIK, you don't write nor pronounce "an university" but "a university"... Not sure it's related, anyway university is far away...
Seb 2009/11/2 Wayne <[email protected]> > > Sunish Issac wrote: > > I think blink an LED is the right usage. > > A google search for "blink a LED" gave Wouters and Stef's pages as the > first > > two links and ""blink an LED" resulted in arduino related projects. > > > > Sunish > > > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Rob Hamerling <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> Sebastien Lelong wrote: > >> > >>> I've read carefully blink a led tutorial, > >> As far as I know (and according to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/LED) > in > >> English 'LED' is pronounced as it is spelled: 'l' 'e' 'd', while I > >> normally pronounce it as a word. I think as a consequence when LED is > >> spelled it should be 'blink an LED', but when LED is pronounced as word > >> it can be 'blink a LED'. > >> Is there a more or less qualified English language teacher among us who > >> could shine his LED on the matter? > > From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 > [gcide]: > > > > > An \An\ ([a^]n). [AS. [=a]n one, the same word as the numeral. > > > See {One}, and cf. {A}.] > > > This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called > > > the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the > > > singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat > > > less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour," > > > "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d {A}, 2), it has a > > > distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every. > > > [1913 Webster] > > As LED is not a noun, blink a LED, is proper. > > Wayne > > > > -- Sébastien Lelong http://www.sirloon.net http://sirbot.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
