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TomBuckQuin

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Re: Paul Lasike interview
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 08-Aug-2019, 17:23* »
https://www.dailywritingtips.com/using-a-and-an-before-words/

just saying, loike....

I don't understand... that article proves my point?

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Similarly, you should use “an NBC reporter” (because “NBC” is pronounced “enbisi”) and “a NATO authority” (because “NATO” begins with a “ne” sound).

So I can only presume you're from a strange part of the world (maybe the West Country - that's a pretty zany place) that pronounces it "nuh-zed".

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Re: Paul Lasike interview
« Reply #16 on: Thursday 08-Aug-2019, 17:40* »
To be fair whilst I see NZ written a lot, I've never heard it spoken aloud by anyone, so I think "a NZ" is correct.
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Monte

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Re: Paul Lasike interview
« Reply #17 on: Thursday 08-Aug-2019, 18:17* »
To be fair whilst I see NZ written a lot, I've never heard it spoken aloud by anyone, so I think "a NZ" is correct.
Disagree I say NZ a lot and NEVEr ‘a’ 😊

TomBuckQuin

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Re: Paul Lasike interview
« Reply #18 on: Thursday 08-Aug-2019, 18:30* »
Yeah, I find it a bit strange that grammar is supposedly now about providing the relevant prefix so that it's correct when people say it out load in their heads and convert the abbreviation into its long form - or whatever this weird theory is.

If you're going to write "NZ" then it's "an". If you write "New Zealand" then "a". Couldn't really be more simple.

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Re: Paul Lasike interview
« Reply #19 on: Thursday 08-Aug-2019, 20:10* »
I did say "feel odd", not "be correct"  :P

Domestos

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Re: Paul Lasike interview
« Reply #20 on: Thursday 08-Aug-2019, 22:36* »
'Abbreviations
Deciding which version you should use with abbreviations is the tricky part. First of all you need to understand if the abbreviation is pronounced as a single word or letter by letter.
While we say “a light-water reactor,” the abbreviation is “an LWR.”
Similarly, you should use “an NBC reporter” (because “NBC” is pronounced “enbisi”) and “a NATO authority” (because “NATO” begins with a “ne” sound).'

So, it should be "an NZ" shouldn't it?

If the letters can be, or are said as a word, i.e. RADAR, or NATO, then it is an acronym. If the letters are spelt out as individual letters, i.e. UN, or RNLI, then it is an abbreviation.

I hope this helps.

Gone

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Re: Paul Lasike interview
« Reply #21 on: Friday 09-Aug-2019, 05:50* »
If it helps, only dead languages don’t evolve. So Victorian rules of grammar are no longer applicable.

If this wasn’t true we’d still say verily, forsooth and sirrah a lot more than most (but not all) Quins fans tend to.

Here’s a word. Rugby. Now we’re back on topic.

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Re: Paul Lasike interview
« Reply #22 on: Friday 09-Aug-2019, 09:30* »
you mean you do not use verily on a daily basis? standards are dropping.

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Re: Paul Lasike interview
« Reply #23 on: Friday 09-Aug-2019, 09:51* »
The use of an abbreviation is for the benefit of a lazy writer, not for the reader.

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Re: Paul Lasike interview
« Reply #24 on: Friday 09-Aug-2019, 13:06* »
If the letters can be, or are said as a word, i.e. RADAR, or NATO, then it is an acronym. If the letters are spelt out as individual letters, i.e. UN, or RNLI, then it is an abbreviation.

I hope this helps.

It most certainly does. I thank you sir/madam! I love trivia like that.

deadlyfrom5yardsout

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Re: Paul Lasike interview
« Reply #25 on: Friday 09-Aug-2019, 13:41* »
It most certainly does. I thank you sir/madam! I love trivia like that.

Ok so you have to have vowels between your consonants to make it an acronym?

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Re: Paul Lasike interview
« Reply #26 on: Friday 09-Aug-2019, 14:11* »
An acronym doesn't *have* to have a vowel, but it does need to be said in common usage as a word, rather than a series of letters (eg NATO rather than "En Ay Tee Oh").

 

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