• Dicska@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I was just thinking about ways to justify “have a ftp” server. The only defence I can think of is that they pronounce ‘ftp’ not as ‘eff-tee-pee’ but literally as ‘ftp’, a vowelless word.

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      3 days ago

      Maybe ‘feh-teh-peh’, but yeah, sometimes I see ‘an’ or ‘a’ where I don’t expect them and am left wondering about mysterious ways of the English language