13879 2011-08-23 21:29:56 +0000 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 2011-08-24 13:23:49 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#head P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ian matthew mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 55736 0 contributor 2011-08-23 21:29:56 +0000 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 Posted from: 92.20.229.110 User agent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en-GB) Presto/2.9.168 Version/11.50 55739 1 ian 2011-08-23 21:37:43 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: added regexp to build script Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments. Actual fixes will come later. 55761 2 matthew 2011-08-24 13:23:49 +0000 "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").