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I'm always thrown when people write "an SQL parser". I'll bet roughly half this crowd is the opposite and cringe when they read "a SQL parser".
by rcoveson 4y ago
I'm always thrown when people write "an SQL parser". I'll bet roughly half this crowd is the opposite and cringe when they read "a SQL parser".
- nailer 4y agoan ess kyu el parser is fine a sequel parser is also fine * * my old Unix colleagues will remember that Sequel is a brand of database that nobody else remembers anymore so tended to use the initialism.
- Tao3300 4y agoI'm in the special superstate where both make me cringe and wish there was a better way! Solution get rid of article. Someone want to know if thing is definitive thing, can figure it out from context!
- JoshuaDavid 4y agoThere's a third article besides "a" and "an". So in order to solve the problem, we need only to ensure that there is only one SQL parser, so that we can refer to it as "the SQL parser". (also, I'm in the opposite superstate to the one you are in -- both "a SQL parser" and "an SQL parser" look fine to me, although I internally pronounce the first as "a seekwul parser" and the second as "an ess cue ell parser")
- anacrolix 4y agoI'm a grammar Nazi but I can report neither gets my hackles up in this case!