Hi William.
William wrote:
> We're just having fun here, right?
It is not just fun. I asked whether it is "blink a led" or "blink an
LED" because in my opinion we in Jallib (-documentation, etc.) should
use one or the other, not a both.
In the English wikipedia I read:
> 'A' and 'an' function as the indefinite forms of the grammatical
> article in the English language and can also represent the number
> one. An is the older form (related to one, cognate to German ein;
> etc), now used before words starting with a vowel sound, regardless
> of whether the word begins with a vowel letter.[1] Examples: a
> light-water reactor; an LWR (Note: When an acronym is spelled out,
> rather than spelling out what it is that is represented by the
> letters in the acronym, the phonetics of the acronym should be used
> when reading the text aloud. So the use of "a" or "an" as shown in
> this example is correct based on the proper application of this
> rule); a sanitary sewer overflow; an SSO; a HEPA filter (because HEPA
> is pronounced as a word rather than as letters); an hour; a ewe; a
> one-armed bandit; an heir; a unicorn (begins with 'yu', a consonant
> sound).
(Seb: a unicorn -> a university)
So when LED is pronounced as a word it should be 'blink a led' and
when it is pronounced spelled with its letters it should be 'blink an LED'.
In the English wikipedia I read that you have the choice to pronounce
'LED' as a word or as an abbreviation (spelled). But they write it
consequently in uppercase, suggesting that the preferred pronunciation
is as abbreviation.
In the Dutch wikipedia I read that 'led' is not anymore considered to be
an abbreviation but a noun, pronounced as a word and written in
lowercase ('led' is an imported word in the Dutch language, we have/use
no native Dutch term for it).
If we agree about using one of both terms, I'm afraid we have to vote.
I would vote for 'blink a led' (all lower case).
Regards, Rob.
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Rob Hamerling, Vianen, NL (http://www.robh.nl/)
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