xml-dev - RE: A or An

[Karl Dubost <karl@la-grange.net>]

At 13:52 +0100 14/06/2000, Peter Murray-Rust wrote:
>[Are there languages where the XML acronyms or abbreviations are different
>from in English?]

For french people.
There are not different, we ususally use the english abbrevations but 
pronounced in french... XML [icks - em - el] (a try for an english 
representation of a french pronounciation !!! :-))
But we don't have problems for a or an because we usually put it in 
the second place.
	An XML specification will become une spécification XML.

There's a strong need for a complete glossary with the meaning of 
most important word. Since I've translated and I'm translating many 
RECs [*] in french, there's sometime ambiguity for the french 
equivalent of words.


It will be very usefull to have a glossary or dictionnary with the 
meaning of each word that could be easily translated in others 
languages as cornerstone for translators and users.

[*] http://www.la-grange.net/w3c/

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