[OT] English++

[Jeff Mitchell]

Alex Merry wrote:
> On Sunday 15 November 2009 22:25:04 Thomas Lübking wrote:
>> Am Sunday 15 November 2009 schrieb Jeff Mitchell:
>>> Actually, you're both half right. The correct sentence is:
>>>
>>> "An HTML page was received. Expected a RSS 2.0 feed."
>> /me is confused - it's Arr-Ess-Ess rather than Riss, isn't?
>> or /A/ ("Eyy") Arr-Ess-Ess to stress the RSS need?
> 
> RSS should definitely be preceded by "an", since you would read RSS as three 
> letters, not as "Really Simple Syndication" (or something like "Riss").  I've 
> not heard an accent that would lead to you being able to say "a R" without 
> either a glottal stop or a merging of the two syllables.

I personally find it quite easy  :-)

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