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I was always taught to use the article associated with the words that made
the acronym, not the acronym... So "a Structured Query Language
server" would be correct; "an Structured Query Language server" would
not.
On 9/22/05, arroxaneullman -at- aol -dot- com <arroxaneullman -at- aol -dot- com> wrote:
> This came up today.
>
> In our old documentation the author uses "an" for SQL server. But all
> our people pronounced "SQL" as "sequel." So, one of the engineers came
> to me and said, "this is all wrong, it should be 'a SQL server'!" I
> explained that when pronouncing it as "ess cue ell" you would us "an."
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