Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]> writes:
> On Thu, 08 Jul 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > + A shared library must be uniquely identified by an <tt>SONAME</tt>
>
> s/an/a/ ? (I saw it several times, sounds odd to me but maybe I miss
> something)
Like Russ, it sounds fine to me. That's probably because we pronounce
the initialism “SONAME” as “ess oh name”, which starts with a vowel
sound and hence takes the indefinite article “an”; while you might be
treating it as an acronym.
<URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initialism>
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