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 John Cowan wrote: > Although I have heard that Z, the specification formalism, > is pronounced "zed" even in the U.S. I remember being taught "zed" because the inventors were Brits. I knew a Vietnamese who learned English from a speech synthesizer dictionary. She pronounced "SGML" as "hhe chi e'e" with different tones. This is not to be confused with "he chi e'e" which is "HTML" . Who was it that calls XML "Egg Smell"? If anyone needs an X name, and does not want to look for a Chinese, Mexican, Greek or !Xhosa word, I suggest old episodes of Batman featuring "Egghead" might be the most reliable source. (The confusion of a and an is perhaps because often one sees "an hotel" written, especially in older UK material. But the people who wrote that would probably be pronouncing it "otel" as a French word: "an 'otel" or "a hotel". Even now, many people who still write "an hotel" will have almost a silent "h" when speaking, so the speech rule holds still. The "n" is a euphonic so that things like "a aardvark" or "a anathema" will be easier to say.) Rick Jelliffe *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ *************************************************************************** 
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