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170 months ago

linguamadre (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

Italian > English

Subject:

Technical / Engineering

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

light emitting diode (more commonly LED)

Context:

would you use "a" or "an" before the acronym LED?

 

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170 months ago

  See profile wrote:

an LED

My comment:

You have to use 'an' because of the pronounciation of LED: you start to pronounce it with a vowl and therefore 'an' is correct. The pronounciation goes like "elid"

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170 months ago

  See profile wrote:

Yes: just have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode, you will find "an LED" only and never "a LED".

170 months ago

  See profile wrote:

Yes, no doubt

170 months ago

  See profile wrote:

Yes, no doubt

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170 months ago

global syntax  See profile wrote:

a LED