Date:   Fri, 3 Feb 2023 11:20:14 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To:     Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@linaro.org>
Cc:     linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: s/a SPI/an SPI
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On Fri, Feb 03, 2023 at 10:11:19AM +0200, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
> The deciding factor for when a/an should be used is the sound
> that begins the word which follows these indefinite articles,
> rather than the letter which does. Use "an SPI". (SPI begins
> with the consonant letter S, but the S is pronounced with its
> letter name, "es.")

No, this is wrong.  English is really not regular enough to do anything
on the basis of rules and the more commonly used thing is that you use
an when the word starts with a vowel (frankly I've never heard the sound
thing before).  As a native speaker "an SPI" sounds wrong to me.

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