From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA453C54EBE for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2023 17:08:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay11.mail.gandi.net (relay11.mail.gandi.net [217.70.178.231]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web10.172582.1673888901177036205 for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2023 09:08:21 -0800 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=@bootlin.com header.s=gm1 header.b=ZIOQSjIh; spf=pass (domain: bootlin.com, ip: 217.70.178.231, mailfrom: michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com) Received: (Authenticated sender: michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com) by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8F95D100009; Mon, 16 Jan 2023 17:08:18 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bootlin.com; s=gm1; t=1673888899; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=ohhkV9LzxQCQgi09956eLBqQYRbwvCPqtLYaW3FA3Hc=; b=ZIOQSjIhSppzIcHsoDYNt9AZFK8H6GnMVmW1CXH48axPoUv3PVSqSFHnymau4eWb2i049n LlbsmX2WcR/JAT22JoSWs11V4xbbtC7uESoMq5/4IU5Bd2T0kp5fsjTIdi2/tmxZpyfeOJ kfr39DzoOjXwXrp/KWjz8JY6BRNYo+bqgMhJ9WYGCLomKLam8V3T4XIPDgP7UGuR0VT+8v jhhITxUw+4rCZb4mkL4qn7F9Iajl3IX7y1f6ej3NyxfjkEfQ4oTxeZT2U+rmhs43KTQXtB y51gH21xIplBuogSW8tdiQx1RIbZ2WGLIhzj7r5TIn2sMR/M3YK1uPF7LR46bQ== Message-ID: <2a2d305b-df74-479c-cf5d-5ef8cce215ee@bootlin.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2023 18:08:18 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.4.2 Cc: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: [docs] [PATCH] ref-manual: document Rust classes Content-Language: en-US To: Richard Purdie , =?UTF-8?Q?Ulrich_=c3=96lmann?= References: <20230113180932.1507356-1-michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com> <6rsfga2abu.fsf@pengutronix.de> <2a53087f-ebe5-e571-9731-cfc680ace44e@bootlin.com> <173AD6377FCD14EA.23170@lists.yoctoproject.org> <313f2f809ffb451062547e7c5438a82173549d09.camel@linuxfoundation.org> From: Michael Opdenacker Organization: Bootlin In-Reply-To: <313f2f809ffb451062547e7c5438a82173549d09.camel@linuxfoundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: X-Webhook-Received: from li982-79.members.linode.com [45.33.32.79] by aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org with HTTPS for ; Mon, 16 Jan 2023 17:08:28 -0000 X-Groupsio-URL: https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/docs/message/3612 On 16.01.23 at 17:34, Richard Purdie wrote: > >>> I'd disagree on this one. If you read "src", what you pronounce ("S. R. >>> C.") starts with a vowel, hence the use of "an". >>> >>> https://editorsmanual.com/articles/indefinite-article-a-an-with-abbreviations/ >>> seems to agree with me, but I'd be happy to be corrected! >>> >>> Thanks for the proofreading! >> As a native speaker, it is definitely "a source" or "a src", "an src" >> just sounds plain wrong to me! > I was thinking a bit more about this, I think the reason is that you'd > always pronounce this as "source", I'm not sure how you'd say "src" out > loud! :) That's what's difficult with English, there are so many different uses of it, and I'm saying "S. R. C." while you say "source" for "src". Anyway, you win as a native speaker :) Thanks Michael. -- Michael Opdenacker, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com