From 4d13cc56de46ccfc89e9f1381ba4f194070bbdb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Boersma Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 18:23:48 -0400 Subject: Fixed #21035 -- Changed docs to treat the acronym SQL phonetically. The documentation and comments now all use 'an' to refer to the word SQL and not 'a'. --- docs/internals/contributing/writing-documentation.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/internals') diff --git a/docs/internals/contributing/writing-documentation.txt b/docs/internals/contributing/writing-documentation.txt index d2cfaddc89..52ad7b7599 100644 --- a/docs/internals/contributing/writing-documentation.txt +++ b/docs/internals/contributing/writing-documentation.txt @@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ documentation: * **MySQL**, **PostgreSQL**, **SQLite** +* **SQL** -- when referring to SQL, the expected pronunciation should be + "Ess Queue Ell" and not "sequel". Thus in a phrase like "Returns an + SQL expression", "SQL" should be preceded by "an" and not "a". + * **Python** -- when referring to the language, capitalize Python. * **realize**, **customize**, **initialize**, etc. -- use the American -- cgit v1.3