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Subject:Re: Grammar help "a RMA" or "an RMA"? From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 6 May 2014 17:03:23 -0700
Look closer.
Google finds 1.3 million results for "an RMA" and many of the top
results were written by professionals.
It finds only 586,000 results for "a RMA" and most of the top results
were written by amateurs.
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Shawn <shawn -at- cohodata -dot- com> wrote:
> However, for the sake of curiosity, I decided to do a Google search
> for ["a RMA" or "an RMA"].What I found was absolutely no consistency. Even
> within a single document, both "a" and "an" were used.
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