“a” vs “an”, c’mon, man!

ateamer said:
What I don’t understand is people who cannot spell YouTube correctly. For crying out loud, it’s right there on the app! It’s not utube, but an annoying number of people spell it as such.
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Back in the olden days, there was a website utube.com It was for a company (in Ohio IIRC) that did custom tubing cutting / bending. Then YouTube came along and the utube website got clobbered with YouTube traffic. So, rather than take advantage of all the web traffic that was coming to their site by selling advertising and just putting a link to YouTube (or acting as a front end), they sued YouTube and tried to make them change the name.

It didn't work.
 
Some of you guys must be familiar with my favorite Dave Barry recurring column, Mr. Language Person. I think of that every time I drive by those guys selling boiled peanuts. I have yet to see a sign that simply says “boiled peanuts”. It’s always “ ‘boiled’ peanuts”, or “boiled p-nuts”, or “bold penuts” or “BOilD peants”.
 
ateamer said:
Some of you guys must be familiar with my favorite Dave Barry recurring column, Mr. Language Person. I think of that every time I drive by those guys selling boiled peanuts. I have yet to see a sign that simply says “boiled peanuts”. It’s always “ ‘boiled’ peanuts”, or “boiled p-nuts”, or “bold penuts” or “BOilD peants”.
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I got some rat **** straps at a garage sale…
 
jayhawk74 said:
I just wish people would spell words correctly so I wouldn't have to guess. For instance the word speling I think eman1200 meant spelling, but who knows.
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Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
 
Pinecone said:
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
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Blushilt
 
Pinecone said:
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
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Pretty sure you accidentally spoke Welsh.
 
Pinecone said:
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
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ut fi oyu soal alvee setler dan cassional ordw, king eth input sarcrs if a rome difclt.

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AvNavCom said:
And you are wrong to do so in 2025. ;)
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It depends.

Some employers have style manuals that define how to do things like this. As mentioned, the USN requires it, so if you work for them, it is NOT wrong.
 
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