On 2009-08-02, Mark Brown <broo...@sirena.org.uk> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 11:53:22AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > >> PR5. What are Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and when would you do an NMU? >> - Please list the usual procedure for a NMU. >> + Please list the usual procedure for an NMU. > > The original is correct here; "an" generally only preceeds a word that > starts with a vowel in this context.
Style manuals seem to recommend "an" for an initialism when the first letter begins with a vowel sound (as it does in "en em you"). I can see an argument for "a NMU" if you read it as "a non-maintainer upload" though. Not that it means much, but googlefight shows "an nmu" as more popular: http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?word1="an+nmu"&word2="a+nmu" But it's definitely better not to be using *both* "an NMU" and "a NMU" in adjacent lines as this question did before Enrico's patch... Cheers, Olly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-newmaint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org