Re: A/An

["Lois Patterson" <lois -at- dowco -dot- com>]

Microsoft Manual of Style says that the indefinite article for acronyms
should be chosen based on how the acronym is pronounced.
These sites say the same:
http://www.americanwritingandediting.se/Swenglish.htm#acronyms
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/library/Grammar/Acronyms.html (which gives the
example "An NBC news broadcast featured segments devoted to a NATO
initiative in Bosnia and an NAACP effort to improve inner-city schools." )
http://www.webgrammar.com/earlyissues.html (quoting from Chicago Manual of
Style)

Lois Patterson
lois -at- dowco -dot- com




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