Re: pedantry

On 2012/11/04 13:20, D V wrote:
> 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.

"media" is plural, you wouldn't write "Booting an install floppies
on the i386 and...".

> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Rod Whitworth <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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.

+1 for "Booting install media" from me.