Hello,
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 01:33:38PM +0000, Olly Betts wrote: > 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... I commited the patch now as is. If we get a decision for "a NMU" we can still fix SVN. Thanks for your work. Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
