Hi, you asked Which is the correct usage please: " I have ordered a / an MRI (magnetic resonance scan) and will review the patient following this." Rule: With single letters and groups of letters that are pronounced as individual letters, be

Do you know roughly when this sound change is supposed to have happened? Not off the top of my head, but my guess is early post-Shakespeare. Perhaps earlier than that. The nature of ... /rOl/, became /rOUl/ - which is essentially the same as the

Yesterday I came upon a phonetic spelling in which "o" ... of the name of President McKinley's assassin: "Leon Czolgosz (cholgosh)." The only source I have for the pronunciation of "Czolgosz" is the cast recording

Then, while wondering why Danny Kaye's fake accent in "A Policeman's Lot Is Not An 'appy One" had him saying ... has the same consonant but a back vowel that's either (o) or (O) depending on how careful my pronunciation

In article (Email Removed), Evan says... In 1991 and 1992 people were manifestly frustrated by a lack of common notational ground, especially those who were used ... but I don't know if anybody's sufficiently frustrated with it as it

I'm forwarding this posting, which was originally posted to alt.english.usage, to alt.usage.english because it has remarks in it that I hope will be of interest to readers of that newsgroup. I've suppressed the identification of the AEU