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Re: More templates QA



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


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