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"The use of these forms is determined by sound and not by spelling. Before a consonant sound "a" is used; before a vowel sound "an" is used." - 'Winston's Self Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language' copyright 1915 > Indefinite article 'a' or 'an' supposes a class of objects with pointing out >to one of them no matter which one. So, yes, there is no such thing as "an > XML". However in English language nouns often can be used as adjectives, > like "an XML example" or "an XML application", in which case in should be > "an" because (as already mentioned) XML is really "ex-me-el", so it starts > from vowel. > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim McCune [mailto:timm@c...] > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 12:59 PM > To: 'Lynda VanVleet'; xml-dev@x... > Subject: RE: A or An > Importance: Low > > > I've never heard anyone say "A XML" or "A XSLT". > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lynda VanVleet [mailto:lyndavv@e...] > Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 1:14 PM > To: xml-dev@x... > Subject: A or An > > > Which is correct: > A XML > A XSLT > or because it stands for eXtensible > An XML > An XSLT > > I keep changing it in my whitepaper so I refer to the > academic experts. > > Lynda VanVleet > lvanvleet@c... > > > ************************************************************* > ************** > 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/ > ************************************************************* > ************** > > ************************************************************* > ************** > 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/ > ************************************************************* > ************** > *************************************************************************** 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/ *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** 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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