English VS techy talk

[zazoo]

ok I have a few questions with english when it comes to computers, now english is the only language I know but I just dont know these as they are new words

ok question # 1... when your talking about more than one mouse on a computer is it mouses or mice?

question # 2.... is it website or web site? (one or two words?)

question # 3.... is it "an URL" or "a URL"?

feel free to add any to the list that i forgot I would like to know your feedback :)

[Dusty]

when your talking about more than one mouse on a computer is it mouses or mice?
Mice.


is it website or web site? (one or two words?)
When talking, both sound the same. In writting, I usually use "website".


is it "an URL" or "a URL"?
a URL.

[Todd]

Originally posted by zazoo
question # 3.... is it "an URL" or "a URL"?
It sounds better to say: "a url" but according to English grammar I believe you are supposed to say an, if a vowel starts the next word.

[Dusty]

It sounds better to say: "a url" but according to English grammar I believe you are supposed to say an, if a vowel starts the next word.I thought the rule was a vowel sound, not necessarily a vowel. I don't know. I know I say "a URL" because "an URL" just sounds wrong.

[zazoo]

Originally posted by Dusty
I thought the rule was a vowel sound, not necessarily a vowel. I don't know. I know I say "a URL" because "an URL" just sounds wrong.

I agree I think there might be an exception when its short form...

what does URL stand for anyways?:confused:

[Dusty]

what does URL stand for anyways?Uniform Resource Locator

[whatevah]

1. mice

2. website

3. a url

[Todd]

Originally posted by zazoo
I agree I think there might be an exception when its short form...
I honestly don't know but it would make sense and sound a lot better as "a url". It almost has to be a url but I don't know of any exceptions to the rule but knowing the crazy English language I wouldn't doubt if one existed.

I would have guessed that someone else would have been able to clear this up by now.

[lucifer]

english is a live language

this means it is still evolving

make up your own rules :)

[niv]

Originally posted by lucifer
make up your own rules :)

make it up if it doesn't exist ;)

[Mandrake]

Originally posted by Todd

It sounds better to say: "a url" but according to English grammar I believe you are supposed to say an, if a vowel starts the next word.

If you're pronouncing the letters, (i.e. "You-Are-El"), then "A URL" would right.

If you're pronouncing it as a word, as some people do, (i.e. "Earl"), then it's "An URL".


That what sounds right, anyway. :-)

[polestar]

'earl' ? That's a new one on me!

By the way, do you notice on the news and stuff it says "an historic victory" - that sound wrong, doesn't it - but it must be correct or it wouldn't be on the news.

[lucifer]

Originally posted by polestar
By the way, do you notice on the news and stuff it says "an historic victory" - that sound wrong, doesn't it - but it must be correct or it wouldn't be on the news. if only everything on the news was correct ;)

[Stumbler]

I don't spoke proper England

[Nick]

Originally posted by Dusty
I thought the rule was a vowel sound, not necessarily a vowel. I don't know. I know I say "a URL" because "an URL" just sounds wrong.

That's right, you go by the sound. Which is why you say "an hour" instead of "a hour". One of the secretaries here at the firm was an English teacher, I just asked her.

....I really should be working....

[lucifer]

Originally posted by Stumbler
I don't spoke proper England you have got something about being scottish ;) :p

[Stumbler]

you have got something about being scottish

I love Scotland, on a nice day it the best looking place on earth.

I also lived in Italy for 7 years, that comes a close 2nd.

[lucifer]

Edinburgh is kewl

nice architecture :)

nice accent (unlike Glasgow)