Re: "a SQL sever" vs "an SQL server"

Subject: Re: "a SQL sever" vs "an SQL server"
From: Alessandro Ansa <alessandro -dot- ansa -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:54:19 +0100


> Personally I think pronouncing acronyms
> is usually a bad idea. Professionally I think it is *definitely* a bad
> idea, especially in an era of wide internationalization.
>
computer programmers are to blame, they practically speak in acronyms.
Do you guys in America distinguish between acronyms and initialisms?
Over in the UK, acronyms are a bunch of letters that are meant to be
read out as a single word, like NATO and RADAR, and initialisms are
letters that you read individually, like HTML, CSS, BBC.

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"a SQL sever" vs "an SQL server": From: arroxaneullman
Re: "a SQL sever" vs "an SQL server": From: Alessandro Ansa
Re: "a SQL sever" vs "an SQL server": From: Jefro

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