Re: How do you pronounce "HLL"

Frank Kotler wrote:
Thinking more about it, I think the pronunciation of "HLL" may be influenced by the indefinite article preceeding it. "a high level language" or "an aitch ell ell". Depends.

It's the other way around. The pronunciation, with some exceptions, dictates whether to use a or an. Here, "an HLL" is correct because the sound at the beginning is a vowel.

An HLL (a-).
An MP (em-).
An x-ray (ex-).

I'm not aware of any exceptions in this case, though there are some involving "h".

Regards,
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Gmork
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