On Sun Aug 02 13:02, Mark Brown wrote: > On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 11:53:22AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > > > PR5. What are Non-Maintainer Uploads (NMUs) and when would you do an NMU? > > - Please list the usual procedure for a NMU. > > + Please list the usual procedure for an NMU. > > The original is correct here; "an" generally only preceeds a word that > starts with a vowel in this context. Actually, it's to do with whether a vowel _sound_ is at the start of a word [0]. Thus it would be "an X-ray", "a hotel", "an honourific", "a user" etc. NMU is pronounced "en-em-ewe", so it should be "an NMU". (just try saying "a NMU" out loud, the glottal stop is horrible) Matt 0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_and_an -- Matthew Johnson
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