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Bug 13879 - Various uses of "an" instead of "a", found by regexp /\ban (<[^>]*>)*(?!(http|https|href|hgroup|rt|rp|li|xml|svg|hour|hr|xhtml|xslt|xbl|nntp|m[ions]|mtext|merror|h[1-6]|xmlns|xpath|s|x|sgml|huang|srgb|rsa)\b|html)[b-df-hj-np-tv-z]/i
Summary: Various uses of "an" instead of "a", found by regexp /\ban (<[^>]*>)*(?!(http...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-08-23 21:29 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-24 13:23 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-08-23 21:29:56 UTC
Specification: 
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#head
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#head

Comment:
Various uses of "an" instead of "a", found by regexp /\ban
(<[^>]*>)*(?!(http|https|href|hgroup|rt|rp|li|xml|svg|hour|hr|xhtml|xslt|xbl|n
ntp|m[ions]|mtext|merror|h[1-6]|xmlns|xpath|s|x|sgml|huang|srgb|rsa)\b|html)[b
-df-hj-np-tv-z]/i

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-08-23 21:37:43 UTC
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: added regexp to build script
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.

Actual fixes will come later.
Comment 2 Matthew Wilson 2011-08-24 13:23:49 UTC
"an hour" is surely correct, and there's no need to change it.

The others in the list seem to be acronyms such that they start with a vowel when pronounced, so "an" seems better here too (eg "an XSLT transform" reads much better than "a XSLT transform").