Hi Michel: I think your English is perfectly good. This seems to depend upon how the writer thinks in his own mind when he writes: A SAT or whether he writes An SAT. We commonly refer to the Sanderson AccuTuner in an abrev. form like S. A. T., so linguistically we would say: "an Ess Aye Tee". But if we were thinking of letting one word represent the Sanderson Accu Tuner like SAT, pronounced " sat", like I sat in a chair, then it would be proper to write: a SAT. I don't think any of us can claim to see how the writer views this term in his own mind since we are not clairvoyant, and cannot tell which way the writer is thinking linguistically, we should extend a bit of a gracious attitude toward the writer. Patience is needed on the part of us all since without voice inflection we cannot always guess what a writer really is saying. Jim Coleman, Sr. On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Michel Lachance wrote: > Dear list, > > I apologize fo my limited understanding in English. I see repetitively > people writing "an SAT" and one can see it has been written at least a > hundred times that way in you search for that string in the archives. > Is it because it simply slips better on the tongue or is it because I > really make a mistake in writing "a SAT"? > > Regards, > > Michel Lachance, RPT >
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