XPost: uk.d-i-y, alt.home.repair, alt.sci.physics   
   From: CFKinsey@military.org.jp   
      
   On Sun, 06 Oct 2019 10:07:15 +0100, Max Demian  wrote:   
      
   > On 06/10/2019 00:14, Commander Kinsey wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > An acronym is a pronounceable abbreviation, e.g. NATO, scuba, radar.   
      
   Ah, I always say acronym to mean abbreviation.  I don't care if it's   
   technically wrong :-)   
      
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