Thread: A Vs An

An LD
An FAQ

wouldn't FAQ be faque??

A lot of people I know say "Feck".

Yeah, faque sounds a bit french, and nobody wants that. Notice the way I left the "f" in "french" without a capitol letter, k?.

Notice how capitol is actually spelled "capital"? Haha.
Anyway, let's say ontopic

Originally Posted by TweaK

Notice how capitol is actually spelled "capital"? Haha.
Anyway, let's say ontopic
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/me says "ontopic."

A ld. You say an if the next word begans with a vowel right? But saying a lucid is easyier .

An LD (El-dee)

An FAQ (Ef-Ay-Kyu)

I got twenty dollars on a LD.

Originally Posted by TweaK

Notice how capitol is actually spelled "capital"? Haha.
Anyway, let's say ontopic
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He's English, different spelling.

Originally Posted by justme

A ld. You say an if the next word begans with a vowel right?
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Vowel sound, depending on how you pronounce words. I say "An LD" or "A lucid dream."

Originally Posted by Amethyst

Vowel sound, depending on how you pronounce words. I say "An LD" or "A lucid dream."
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Yes, otherwise you would be saying an lucid dream.

I go A Ld
A eff-ay-kyu

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

/me says "ontopic."
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..I didn't get that.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

A ld. You say an if the next word begans with a vowel right? But saying a lucid is easyier .
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A vowel sound, yeah. But saying An LD is easier for me than saying A lucid dream. An LD is much shorter. And just saying "a lucid" makes no sense

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

He's English, different spelling.
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Oh.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Vowel sound, depending on how you pronounce words. I say "An LD" or "A lucid dream."
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Exactly. I wasn't asking what was correct, I was kinda asking how do you "say" (in your mind) when you read a[n] LD, a[n] FAQ.

Originally Posted by Oneironaut

Yes, otherwise you would be saying an lucid dream.
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No shit sherlock.

Well, out of nothing better to post, my preferences are:

An EL-DEE.
An EF-AY-CUE.

But to each their own.

An LD
An FAQ

Most of you are going for An Ef-A-Kyu. BLAST YOU! ITS FECK!

Originally Posted by TweaK

Exactly. I wasn't asking what was correct, I was kinda asking how do you "say" (in your mind) when you read a[n] LD, a[n] FAQ.
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What can I say? I'm a language major.... a "social lubricator of the" linguistics "world" (to borrow a phrase).

a lucid dream
a faq

An ld makes no sense in my mind
it would still be a ld no matter what

Originally Posted by dropout14

a lucid dream
a faq

An ld makes no sense in my mind
it would still be a ld no matter what
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How about saying the abbreviation as letters? A El-Dee? That doesn't make sense. It's AN El-Dee because "El" has a vowel sound at the beginning.

And Amé, you scared me with that sentence. Haha.

Originally Posted by TweaK

How about saying the abbreviation as letters? A El-Dee? That doesn't make sense. It's AN El-Dee because "El" has a vowel sound at the beginning.

And Amé, you scared me with that sentence. Haha.
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well an el-dee is retarded too, who talks like that or writes like that

An El-Dee is not retarded. A lot of people, if they read abbreviations, say the letters in their head, rather than the entire word. And "a el-dee" is impossible, because you add an additional n after a (making "an") if the first letter of the next word has a vowel sound.

Originally Posted by dropout14

well an el-dee is retarded too, who talks like that or writes like that
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Nobody writes like that, but most people would say an L-D before saying A L-D

Most people? Everybody that speaks proper english.

But not everybody speaks proper English, there will always be a few who fail to grasp the correct use of their "A's" or "An's". Loads of people on this site don't even know how to use "there", "they're", and "their" properly yet.