One of those silly questions...

[Jerry Hunt]

There have been several other posts which address the grammatically
correctness of this issue. However, I would like to add one further
observation. Sometimes, when an acronym looks like a regular word,
people pronounce the acronym like that word, rather than saying each
individual letter. So, if one were pronouncing "SAT" as the word sat (as
in "I sat on my hat"), then it would be "a SAT", which rhymes with "a
cat".
Hmmmm, theres a catchy idea: "The cat with a SAT comes back...." [move
over Dr. Seuss]


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