From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id HAA28854; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 07:28:14 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA28262 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 07:28:13 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from mail.davidb.org (adsl-64-172-240-129.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [64.172.240.129]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i795SCRM009673 for ; Mon, 9 Aug 2004 07:28:12 +0200 Received: from davidb by mail.davidb.org with local (Exim 4.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bu2hd-0008Mx-9u; Sun, 08 Aug 2004 22:28:09 -0700 Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 22:28:09 -0700 From: David Brown To: Sven Luther Cc: don groves , Ocaml Mailing List Subject: Re: [Caml-list] "a 'a list" or "an 'a list" Message-ID: <20040809052808.GA28248@old.davidb.org> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20040807154048.01cd61e8@mail.web-ster.com> <20040808150551.GA473@pegasos> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040808150551.GA473@pegasos> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 41170B6C.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 caml-list:01 2004:99 sven:01 luther:01 0200,:01 dave:03 wrote:03 08,:03 aug:05 letter:92 written:08 davidb:08 interesting:09 david:09 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners