<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Another non-native speaker butting in, but at least I spent 6 years in the US in my youth… :)</div><div><br></div><div>Here is 'evidence' in the form of advice from the Purdue Online Writing Lab:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/540/1/">http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/540/1/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Matthias has a habit of giving me grammar advice on occasion, so I thought I'd repay the favor by backing him up on this.</div><div><br></div><div>"Remember, using a or an depends on the sound that begins the next word."</div><div>…</div><div><br></div><div>"Remember that these rules also apply when you use acronyms:</div><br> Introductory Composition at Purdue (ICaP) handles first-year writing at <div> the University. Therefore, an ICaP memo generally discusses issues </div><div> concerning English 106 instructors.</div><div><br>Another case where this rule applies is when acronyms start with consonant letters but have vowel sounds:<br><br> An MSDS (material safety data sheet) was used to record the data. </div><div> An SPCC plan (Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures plan) </div><div> will help us prepare for the worst."</div><div><br></div><div>BR,</div><div>Ulf W</div><div><br><div><div>On 9 Aug 2011, at 08:38, Matthias Lang wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Andrew Thompson> >> I don't think the correction of 'a ssl socket' to<br>Andrew Thompson> >> 'an ssl socket' are correct.<br><br>Henrik Nord> > Agree, it should be "a ssl socket" and "a ssl server"<br><br>Christian> I still believe "an ssl" is correct. English is not my native <br>Christian> language,<br><br>English is my native language. I would write "An SSL socket". I.e.<br>'an' and capitalised SSL. I would do that for the reasons Christian<br>referenced and also because this is what the RFC does.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">grep -ic "an SSL" rfc2246.txt<br></blockquote> 4<br> tmp >grep -ic "a SSL" rfc2246.txt<br> 0<br><br>Andrew and Henrik, if you still "I don't think" and "I still believe", can<br>you provide some evidence for you beliefs?<br><br>Fixing the Swenglish in the OTP docs is a good thing. Thanks for doing<br>it, Christian.<br><br>Matt<br>_______________________________________________<br>erlang-patches mailing list<br><a href="mailto:erlang-patches@erlang.org">erlang-patches@erlang.org</a><br>http://erlang.org/mailman/listinfo/erlang-patches<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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