Re: pedantry

Please don't contribute the decline of the English language :-)

From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/an
An
indefinite article
the form of a  before an initial vowel sound ( an arch; an honor ) and
sometimes, especially in British English, before an initial unstressed
syllable beginning with a silent or weakly pronounced h : an
historian.

MfG,
Daniel

On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Rod Whitworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> Every new release I read all of the FAQ (or at least all that apply to
> my systems) even though I've been a user since 2.5.
>
> Every now and then there are important changes that I might miss if I
> didn't do it.
>
> Sometimes something not technical hits me in the eye. I may have even
> missed it in the past but today it leapt out:
>
> 4.4 says:
> 4.4 - Booting OpenBSD install media
> Booting i386/amd64
> Booting an install media on the i386 and amd64 PC....
>
> We could do without the "an". Other pedants may say it should read "an
> install medium" but that sounds clunky to me.
>
> Your call Nick.
>
>
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> This life is not the real thing.
> It is not even in Beta.
> If it was, then OpenBSD would already have a man page for it.