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Subject:Re: Referring to HTML tags From:Doug Nickerson <Doug_Nickerson -at- ONSETCOMP -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 5 Nov 1998 16:48:31 -0500
Bev Parks wrote:
>Because I internally say "end HTML" when reading </HTML>, I would precede
it
>with "an". Of course my internal verbalizing of "end" may be because of my
>programming background. I don't know how someone who has never programmed
>would verbalize a closing HTML tag. Perhaps they think "close HTML"?
Everyone knows that </HTML> is read as "HTML (Not!)"
Doug Nickerson
Bourne, MA.
Programmer/author
doug_nickerson -at- onsetcomp -dot- com
