Re: [docs] [PATCH] ref-manual: document Rust classes

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, 2023-01-16 at 16:15 +0000, Richard Purdie via
lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-01-16 at 17:05 +0100, Michael Opdenacker via
> lists.yoctoproject.org wrote:
> > Hi Ulrich,
> > 
> > On 16.01.23 at 08:35, Ulrich Ölmann wrote:
> > > Hi Michael,
> > > 
> > > I am no inhabitant of the rust world, so I can not evaluate the
> > > technical content
> > 
> > 
> > That's not very different from my status. I'm just a tourist to the Rust 
> > world so far ;-)
> > 
> > > s/and an ``src``/and a ``src``/
> > 
> > 
> > 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! :)

Cheers,

Richard