RE: "a SQL sever" vs "an SQL server" Horses mouth...

Subject: RE: "a SQL sever" vs "an SQL server" Horses mouth...
From: quills -at- airmail -dot- net
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:58:47 -0500 (CDT)



> Odile
>
>
> At 5:01 PM -0400 9/22/05, Art Campbell wrote:
>>I don't think so.
>>
>>When you read an address out loud, you don't pronounce St. as "sssst"
>>or Rd. as "Rrrrd,"
>>you say the word the abbreviation represents -- "street" or "road."
>>
>>And in this case, "represents" is the operative verb because
>> abbreviations
> and
>>acronyms do, indeed, represent the root phrase or words. Therefore the
>>article should
>>agree with the root phrase or words.
>>
>>Art
>>
>>On 9/22/05, Odile Sullivan-Tarazi <odile -at- mindspring -dot- com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The article must align with the abbreviated form, not the phrase the
>>> form stands in for, because the form of the article is determined by
>>> sound.
>><snip>
>>

Remember this is Microsoft. They bastardized SQL so that they can be
special. This is a company's marketing department setting grammar rules.

Scott


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