Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 16:48:00 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner), asami@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT Message-ID: <22389.827542080@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Mar 1996 16:44:50 GMT." <199603221644.QAA07073@tees>
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[Redirected to -chat since I don't think that the CVS committers particularly want to join in what could be a protracted grammatical discussion :-)] > Now, the first draft of my Phd was returned with a big red message saying > "a unit, not an unit!". Now I was a little peeved about this since my FWIW, I've never seen "an unit" used anywhere on this side of the pond. Our english teacher taught us (way back in the late 70's) that `an' be used in front of words starting a, e, i or o. We never learned it as a general rule for vowels (especially since u and sometimes y fit that category, and you'd never say "an uniform" or "an yankee"). So if times they-are-a-changin' then perhaps only in the UK, since "an unit" has _always_ been considered incorrect over here, at least since I was in grade school. Jordan
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