So it depends if it's an acronym or an abbreviation... In french, it's an acronym, so you pronounce "LED" and not "L-E-D"... Wikipedia gives choices: [...] pronounced /ˌɛl.iːˈdiː/, or just /lɛd/ ....
Seb 2009/11/3 Sunish Issac <[email protected]> > Maybe its because that I pronounce L-E-D and not led that I thought its an > L-E-D. > > Sunish > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:29 AM, mattschinkel <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> the question isn't blink a led or blink an led, it's: >> >> blink a light emitting diode >> blink an light emitting diode >> >> Matt. >> >> On Nov 2, 4:51 pm, Joep Suijs <[email protected]> wrote: >> > 2009/11/2 William <[email protected]> >> > >> > >> > >> > > Meanwhile, I have never mastered the Dutch 'G' sound, and (almost) >> > > everywhere I went in Amsterdam, was on a canal, and of course required >> > > the letter G. >> > >> > You're not alone on this, even our neighbour in the east - German - >> can't >> > pronounce it. The only other language with this sound I know is Jiddisch >> > (which I don't speak, except for the word Lechajiem, from which we >> > derived 'daar ga je' in dutch, meaning 'cheers' ;) >> > >> > Joep >> >> > > > > -- Sébastien Lelong http://www.sirloon.net http://sirbot.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
