RE: QRE: Do you pronounce...

Subject: RE: QRE: Do you pronounce...
From: Robert Hodgins <ehodgins -at- telusplanet -dot- net>
To: "Tariel, Lauren R" <lt34 -at- saclink -dot- csus -dot- edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:57:58 -0600

On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 12:16 -0700, Tariel, Lauren R wrote:
> Robert,
>
> Are you suggesting that we defer to O'Reilly's Style Guide for the rule?

Not directly.

> Or that we should look how O'Reilly presents information so that we can derive the rule?

Yes. Users/readers will likely have read (and learned from) works from
such publishers before and will therefore be more familiar with "...an
FQDN..." rather than something like "...a FQDN..."



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References:
Do you pronounce...: From: McLauchlan, Kevin
QRE: Do you pronounce...: From: Lauren
Re: QRE: Do you pronounce...: From: Dossy Shiobara
Re: QRE: Do you pronounce...: From: Robert Hodgins
RE: QRE: Do you pronounce...: From: Tariel, Lauren R

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