From: David Brown <caml-list@davidb.org>
To: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: don groves <dgroves@ccwebster.net>,
Ocaml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] "a 'a list" or "an 'a list"
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 22:28:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040809052808.GA28248@old.davidb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040808150551.GA473@pegasos>
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 05:05:51PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> Notice that the rest of the rules seem to say that if the second letter of the
> word is then a 'n' again, you don't say an, but a. (a anecdote, and not an
> anectode). Not fully sure of this rule though, but in this case would you then
> write : a 'a nupplet ?
Around here, we say an anecdote. Interesting thing about this whole thing
with English, is that word choices in written English can reveal how the
author pronounces words.
Dave
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2004-08-07 21:39 Brian Hurt
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2004-08-07 22:46 ` don groves
2004-08-08 4:01 ` David Brown
2004-08-09 11:39 ` Richard Jones
2004-08-08 15:05 ` Sven Luther
2004-08-08 15:31 ` Olivier Pérès
2004-08-08 17:42 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-08-09 5:28 ` David Brown [this message]
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