XPost: uk.d-i-y, alt.home.repair, alt.sci.physics   
   From: CFKinsey@military.org.jp   
      
   On Sat, 05 Oct 2019 23:08:43 +0100, Max Demian  wrote:   
      
   > On 05/10/2019 19:46, Mark Lloyd wrote:   
   >> On 10/4/19 2:51 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:   
   >>   
   >> [snip]   
   >>   
   >>>> I have a LED   
   >>>   
   >>> That irritates me, why don't you write "an LED"?  How do you say   
   >>> "LED"? I say "Ell Eee Dee", not "Light Emitting Diode".  So it needs   
   >>> an "an", not an "a".   
   >>   
   >> "an LED" irritates me. I know the word is "light".   
   >   
   > It's "a LED" if you pronounce it as an acronym.   
      
   What do you mean by "pronounce it as an acronym"?  I would have said that   
   means "ell eee dee" as in you're treating it as an acronym rather than a word   
   and spelling it out.   
      
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