Sunish Issac wrote:
> I think blink an LED is the right usage.
> A google search for "blink a LED" gave Wouters and Stef's pages as the first
> two links and ""blink an LED" resulted in arduino related projects.
>
> Sunish
>
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Rob Hamerling <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Sebastien Lelong wrote:
>>
>>> I've read carefully blink a led tutorial,
>> As far as I know (and according to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/LED) in
>> English 'LED' is pronounced as it is spelled: 'l' 'e' 'd', while I
>> normally pronounce it as a word. I think as a consequence when LED is
>> spelled it should be 'blink an LED', but when LED is pronounced as word
>> it can be 'blink a LED'.
>> Is there a more or less qualified English language teacher among us who
>> could shine his LED on the matter?
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
[gcide]:
An \An\ ([a^]n). [AS. [=a]n one, the same word as the numeral.
See {One}, and cf. {A}.]
This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called
the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the
singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat
less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour,"
"once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d {A}, 2), it has a
distributive force, and is equivalent to each, every.
[1913 Webster]
As LED is not a noun, blink a LED, is proper.
Wayne
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