Re: URL style

[John Posada <john -at- TDANDW -dot- COM>]

Beth Kane wrote:
>
>      I've just inherited an online Help project that repeatedly
>      refers to "a URL."
>
>      This bugs me, because when I first started hearing the
>      term used, I heard people pronounce it as "earl" -- not
>      "you are el." So I would've written it as "an URL."
>
>      But I'd better check on this. What is the predominant use
>      these days? What's the proper style? I don't find it in
>      the Microsoft style manual's index.

How do you say it? URL, U R L, or Uniform Resource Locator? I'd guess
that you would only use "an" if you are pronouncing it as a word rhyming
with Earl...like in Duke of URL, and to tell the truth, of the three,
that's one the I hear the least.

OTOH, it's "a U R L" (my preference), or "a Uniform Resource Locator"
and BTW my reference bible "Sams.net HTML 3.2 & CGI Professional
Reference Edition" uses "a URL".

>      I should probably change it to an altogether different
>      term, such as "Internet address." Does this work for you?
>      Any other ideas?

NO. Internet "what" address....web?, email?, telnet?, ftp?


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