Re: How do you pronounce "HLL"
- From: "randyhyde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <randyhyde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 6 Aug 2005 10:25:13 -0700
Gmork wrote:
> 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".
The issue isn't whether H-L-L would be preceded by "an" or "a", there
is no question that if you pronounce this by spelling out the letters,
an "an" belongs in front of it. The real question is "do people
pronounce this 'H-L-L' when reading it, or do they mentally pronounce
it at 'high-level-language' when reading it?" In the latter case, it's
more natural to put an 'a' in front of "HLL" rather than an 'an'.
Cheers,
Randy Hyde
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