Re: FAQ 3.3

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd@2003.snew.com>]

Quoting Rod.. Whitworth (listen@witworx.com):
> On Thu, 1 May 2003 21:09:50 -0700, Ben Goren wrote:
> 
> >Actually, ``an'' is formally  preferred over ``a'' when preceeding
...
> The use of 'an' as the indefinite article preceeding a word beginning
> with an aitch is normal in two cases. One is the silent aitch you

Unless you are a cockney in which case the "ash" (in french)
or "aitch" is silent and just their to keep that starting
vowel from escaping.

When I was last on oliday, I ad to find an ospital because I
tripped over an eater when discussing the english language as
if it were static with specific pronounciations, even though
it's spoken by millions of people in dozens of countries.

Now shall we discuss I before E except in words of norse
derivation?  olde german + scandinavia + french plus the
festival of british isle's native languages got us english
circa 1700.  Then add a fair amount of spanish, american
native, and a fork greater than ATT from BSD and you have
modern english.  Kinda of.  It's not a language as much
as a festival of languages.


>From now on the language of the lists will be Esparanto
(there's a class at Stanford continuing ed for those in the
area).

Or do we stick with german, now that PF is german?
(I hate typing those long words and I don't find the umlaut
on my keyboard).