Re: Fix typos - "an" instead of "a" - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From David G. Johnston
Subject Re: Fix typos - "an" instead of "a"
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Msg-id CAKFQuwa-K5GhCrjJwBKB4wrFOenMNngS73nY1_GdpoDPtAkg5A@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Fix typos - "an" instead of "a"  (Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>)
Responses Re: Fix typos - "an" instead of "a"  (Greg Nancarrow <gregn4422@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 5:12 PM Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 07:30:48AM +1100, Peter Smith wrote:

-   # safe: cross compilers may not add the suffix if given an `-o'
+   # safe: cross compilers may not add the suffix if given a `-o'
    # argument, so we may need to know it at that point already.
On this one, I think that you are right, and I can see that this is
the most common practice (aka grep --oids).  But my brain also tells
me that this is not completely wrong either.  Thoughts?


I would read that aloud most comfortably using "an".  I found an article that seems to further support this since it both sounds like a vowel (oh) and is also a letter (oh).


David J.

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