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- Subject: Re: Splitting hairs. Was Re: splitting camel case?
- From: Michael Abbott <mabster@...>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:26:29 +1100
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 22:12 -0500, Rici Lake wrote:
> On 14-Jan-06, at 9:35 PM, Rob Kendrick wrote:
>
> > Well, yes - it should be "componentWithAnURL" which also solves the
> > problem :)
>
> An URL? As in http://www.william-le-gros.gov/, the last URL of York?
>
> Maybe I'm just behind the times, pronounciation-wise, but I pronounce
> it "you are ell", so it's a URL to me.
Shouldn't it still strictly be "an URL" even if you pronounce it that
way? That is, you'd say "Give me an ETA". I thought that it might be
because URL sounds like it has a silent 'y' but that also isn't the case
for something like "I'll be there in an hour".
Oh, and I told my housemate about this discussion and his response was
"well that's the split-hair that broke the camels back". Quite.
- Mab