Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 17:05:36 PST From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/bpatch/pkg COMMENT Message-ID: <96Mar21.170544pst.177478@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Mar 96 16:45:47 PST." <199603220045.QAA00471@freefall.freebsd.org>
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In message <199603220045.QAA00471@freefall.freebsd.org> you write: > ..."hex" doesn't start with a vowel Ah, but "webster a" says, among other things, |usage In speech and writing a is used before a consonant sound <a | door> <a human> Before a vowel sound an is usual <an icicle> | <an honor> but esp. in speech a is used occasionally, more | often in some dialects than in others <a apple> <a hour> <a | obligation> Before a consonant sound represented by a vowel letter | a is usual <a one> <a union> but an also occurs though less | frequently now than formerly <an unique> <such an one> Before | unstressed or weakly stressed syllables with initial h both | a and an are used in writing <a historic> <an historic> but | in speech an is more frequent whether \h\ is pronounced or not. | In the King James Version of the Old Testament and occasionally | in writing and speech an is used before h in a stressed syllable | | <an huntress> <an hundred> <children are an heritage of the | Lord -- Ps 127:3(AV)> (Not to say that I think you should change it back, but it was arguably correct to begin with) Bill
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