Grammer teachers - a html page or an html page

[Mark Tranchant]

Re: Grammer teachers - a html page or an html page

Philipp Lenssen wrote:[color=blue]
> Andreas Prilop wrote:
>
>[color=green]
>>Next question:
>> an .htaccess file
>>or
>> a .htaccess file
>>?[/color]
>
>
> Often with questions like these I perform a site:cnn.com search for
> both alternatives I have in mind -- whatever yields more results I will
> take.[/color]

How about from the horse's mouth:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/htaccess.html

They use "a .htaccess file".

--
Mark.

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[Toby Inkster]

Re: Grammer teachers - a html page or an html page

Mark Tranchant wrote:
[color=blue]
> How about from the horse's mouth:
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/htaccess.html
>
> They use "a .htaccess file".[/color]

Though they use "an" on these pages:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_expires.html

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_mime.html

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/auth.html

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.1/mod/core.html

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[Harlan Messinger]

Re: Grammer teachers - a html page or an html page


"Toby Inkster" <usenet200409@t obyinkster.co.u k> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.0 9.29.19.27.45.1 24426@tobyinkst er.co.uk...[color=blue]
> Mark Tranchant wrote:
>[color=green]
> > How about from the horse's mouth:
> > http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/htaccess.html
> >
> > They use "a .htaccess file".[/color]
>
> Though they use "an" on these pages:
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_expires.html
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_mime.html
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/auth.html
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.1/mod/core.html[/color]

I expect it depends on whether one says "aitch-tee-access" or
"dot-aitch-tee-access".

[Stan Brown]

Re: Grammer teachers - a html page or an html page

"Peter" <deadender66@ya hoo.ca> wrote in
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html:[color=blue]
>A html page just sounds funny, but where is the vowel to justify an html page.[/color]

English speakers choose between "a" and "an" based on the _sound_ of
the following word. "html" is not pronounced "hit-m'l" but "H-T-M-
L". The letter "H" begins with a vowel sound: "eitch" or "aytch",
roughly.

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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA

http://OakRoadSystems.com/

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CSS 2.1 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/
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[Stan Brown]

Re: Grammer teachers - a html page or an html page

"Mark Parnell" <webmaster@clar kecomputers.com .au> wrote in
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html:[color=blue]
>Even if it was a real word, words beginning with 'h' are supposed to be
>preceded by 'an', not 'a'. I.e. an historic occasion.[/color]

"An historic" is a special case. Hardly anyone on this side of the
pond says "an hotel", or ever did. And correct me if I'm wrong, but
isn't "a hospital" usual in English English as well as American
English?

Somehow I can't imagine any English girl sighing "He is an hunk"
about some teen idol. :-)

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA

http://OakRoadSystems.com/

HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2.1 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

[Stan Brown]

Re: Grammer teachers - a html page or an html page

"Andreas Prilop" <nhtcapri@rrz n-user.uni-hannover.de> wrote in
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html:
[color=blue]
>Next question:
> an .htaccess file
>or
> a .htaccess file
>?[/color]

Is the period/dot/full stop silent?

:-)

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA

http://OakRoadSystems.com/

HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2.1 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

[Stan Brown]

Re: Grammer teachers - a html page or an html page

"Philipp Lenssen" <info@outer-court.com> wrote in
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html:[color=blue]
>
>PS: "An SQL database" or "a SQL database"? I suppose it matters if you
>pronounce it "As-Cue-Ell" or "Sequel".[/color]

I always go with "Squeal". People do look at me funny, I admit.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA

http://OakRoadSystems.com/

HTML 4.01 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/
validator: http://validator.w3.org/
CSS 2.1 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/
validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

[Peter]

Re: Grammer teachers - a html page or an html page

Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.rem ovethis@comcast .net> wrote in message news:<fgrjl053c 4kvlrn7sn20q7bf vs0npa68so@4ax. com>...[color=blue]
> deadender66@yah oo.ca (Peter) wrote:
>[color=green]
> >Hi:
> >
> >I am bored and was wondering:
> >
> >Is it
> >
> >a html page?
> >
> >or
> >
> >an html page?
> >
> >A html page just sounds funny, but where is the vowel to justify an html page.
> >I think I need a beer.[/color][/color]

WOW ... 18 messages in the same day. Yes, it is grammar, but I also
lied and had a few beers before I started. \_/ cheers everyone.[color=blue]
>
> Vowels and consonants are sounds, not letters. When we speak of vowel
> letters and consonant letters, it's just a shortcut for referring to
> letters that usually represent vowels or consonants, respectively.
>
> The name of the letter H, "aitch", starts with a vowel.[/color]

[Mark Parnell]

Re: Grammer teachers - a html page or an html page

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:03:04 -0400, Stan Brown
<the_stan_brown @fastmail.fm> declared in
comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html:
[color=blue]
> "An historic" is a special case. Hardly anyone on this side of the
> pond says "an hotel", or ever did. And correct me if I'm wrong, but
> isn't "a hospital" usual in English English as well as American
> English?
>
> Somehow I can't imagine any English girl sighing "He is an hunk"
> about some teen idol. :-)[/color]

See Mark's reply to my post. I thought of "an historic" first, and must
have got confused, thinking that was the norm, not the exception. :-S

--
Mark Parnell

http://www.clarkecomputers.com.au

[Sam Hughes]

Re: Grammer teachers - a html page or an html page

Stan Brown <the_stan_brown @fastmail.fm> wrote in
news:MPG.1bc540 f0a83321bd98ca5 f@news.odyssey. net:
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> "Peter" <deadender66@ya hoo.ca> wrote in
> comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html:[color=green]
>>A html page just sounds funny, but where is the vowel to justify an
>>html page.[/color]
>
> English speakers choose between "a" and "an" based on the _sound_ of
> the following word. "html" is not pronounced "hit-m'l" but "H-T-M-
> L". The letter "H" begins with a vowel sound: "eitch" or "aytch",
> roughly.[/color]

What? But I've always talked about earls to hittimal documents!

[jake]

Re: Grammer teachers - a html page or an html page

In message <MPG.1bc54171f0 5f68e398ca60@ne ws.odyssey.net> , Stan Brown
<the_stan_brown @fastmail.fm> writes
[snip]
[color=blue]
>Somehow I can't imagine any English girl sighing "He is an hunk"
>about some teen idol. :-)
>[/color]
Eez an 'unk, inee?


--
Jake