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From: Neil Conway <[email protected]>
To: Andreas Seltenreich <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [patch] Typo in ECPG Docs
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 22:51:16 +1000
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Andreas Seltenreich wrote:
> I just stumbled across a spurious indefinite article in the ECPG docs.
> See the attached patch.

Patch applied to HEAD and REL8_0_STABLE. Thanks for the patch.

> Speaking of indefinite articles, there seems to be some inconsistency
> in using "a SQL ..." and "an SQL ..." throughout the docs. This could
> probably be easily fixed using a script, but I'm not sure if I'm
> missing some grammatical details here, since English isn't my native
> language.

Good point, it would be good to make this consistent. I would guess "an 
SQL ..." is the correct variant, but I don't have an authoritative 
reference. AFAIK there is no grammatical difference, anyway.

-Neil

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