On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Markus Lude <markus.l...@gmx.de> wrote: ... > "an" before words not beginning with a vocal occurs quite frequent. > Should I provide a diff to fix them too?
Hmm, in a quick scan, the only 'an' that looks incorrect to me is "an u area", which should be "a u-area", as 'u-area' is pronounced like it starts with 'y'**. In particular, it's correct to write "an fd" as 'fd' is pronounced as 'eff-dee' and thus starts with a vowel sound. Ditto for "an RTS5229", where 'RTS' is spelled out ala "an arr-tee-ess". Philip Guenther ** to be slightly more precise, the pronunciation of 'u-area' starts with a palatal approximant (c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatal_approximant ) consonant, and thus should be prefixed with 'a' instead of 'an'. When at the start of a word that sound is written with a 'y'.
