From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 25 08:27:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA07194 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 08:27:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from psiint.com (vv.psiint.com [204.189.53.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA07185 Mon, 25 Mar 1996 08:27:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by psiint.com (8.6.12/4.03) id IAA67922; Mon, 25 Mar 1996 08:27:20 -0800 Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 08:27:20 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Walton To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca, Paul Richards , Bill Fenner , asami@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT In-Reply-To: <23517.827561571@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > But then there are also those really tricky ones like "hotel" > > which can be "a hotel" one day, and "an hotel" the next! > > Huh. I've only ever seen "a hotel" myself! Perhaps the sign-painter > outside of yours never went to school. :-) As with words starting with "u", this depends on how you pronounce the first letter of the word. Or, in this case, WHETHER you pronounce it. Thus, you use "a hotel" or "an 'otel", depending on your local dialect. Dave ========================================================================== David Walton Unix Programmer PSI INTERNATIONAL, Inc. email: dwalton@psiint.com 190 South Orchard #C200 Fax :(707)451-6484 Vacaville, CA 95688 Phone:(707)451-3503 ==========================================================================