Re: "an SQL" vs. "a SQL"

On Fri, 11 Jun 2021 at 02:48, Isaac Morland <isaac.morland@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 at 10:43, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> -       requires an MIT Kerberos installation and opens TCP/IP listen sockets.
>> +       requires a MIT Kerberos installation and opens TCP/IP listen sockets.
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>> I think all of these should use "a" rather than "an".
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> “A MIT …”? As far as I know it is pronounced M - I - T, which would imply that it should use “an”. The following page
seemsbelievable and is pretty unequivocal on the issue: 
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> https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/como_se_dice/

Opps. I'm not sure what I was thinking there.  I'd just been listening
to something in German, so maybe I'd had the German word in mind
instead.

David