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Subject:RE: QRE: Do you pronounce... From:Robert Hodgins <ehodgins -at- telusplanet -dot- net> To:"Tariel, Lauren R" <lt34 -at- saclink -dot- csus -dot- edu> Date:Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:57:58 -0600
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 12:16 -0700, Tariel, Lauren R wrote:
> Robert,
>
> Are you suggesting that we defer to O'Reilly's Style Guide for the rule?
Not directly.
> Or that we should look how O'Reilly presents information so that we can derive the rule?
Yes. Users/readers will likely have read (and learned from) works from
such publishers before and will therefore be more familiar with "...an
FQDN..." rather than something like "...a FQDN..."
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