Slightly bored
I have just finished my lunch and I am slightly bored.
So I decide to read some more news and I started at BBC News, “Climate Change” at the bottom right hand corner caught my attention.
Clicked on it, and got to BBC Nature & Science website – they want to a experiment with some calc more powerful then a supercomputer by using distributed computing.
I am impressed by the BBC site – they are covering a lot of ground in all kind of subject. Part of this is paid with the licence fee and I feel get more value out the BBC site compared to the number of hours watching the BBC channels.
Anyway, I have a question for you;
Which phrase is right?
AN SD memory card
Or
A SD memory card
UPDATE:
"The form an for the indefinite article is used before a spoken vowel sound, regardless of how the written word is spelt."
Source: Ask Oxford and English Rules
S is pronounced "ess" and it should therefore be AN SD Card
So I decide to read some more news and I started at BBC News, “Climate Change” at the bottom right hand corner caught my attention.
Clicked on it, and got to BBC Nature & Science website – they want to a experiment with some calc more powerful then a supercomputer by using distributed computing.
I am impressed by the BBC site – they are covering a lot of ground in all kind of subject. Part of this is paid with the licence fee and I feel get more value out the BBC site compared to the number of hours watching the BBC channels.
Anyway, I have a question for you;
Which phrase is right?
AN SD memory card
Or
A SD memory card
UPDATE:
"The form an for the indefinite article is used before a spoken vowel sound, regardless of how the written word is spelt."
Source: Ask Oxford and English Rules
S is pronounced "ess" and it should therefore be AN SD Card
posted by lizze at 2/14/2006 02:36:00 pm
2 Comments:
I have had two other people saying AN SD card.
I agree with you - "an" should only be used before a vowel
When I thought about it;the same updateyou made came to my mind.
When you pronounce SD;you don't pronounce it as a word(sed) but as letters(es de)so it's considered as a vowel
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