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Confusion with literacy? - Adam - 04-23-2014 06:45 AM
I saw on twitter that someone created a post about a First Person Shooter game and they wrote:
"here's a FPS game to try out"
Now, I thought that it would of been "AN FPS" not "A FPS" as this is like saying "a orange" and not "an orange"
Is it different in this case because the abbreviation for FPS is "First Person Shooter" so "A First Person Shooter" would be correct and not "An First Person Shooter"
- Bilbo - 04-23-2014 06:48 AM
Always tricky - but if you are expecting people to read your abbreviation
as Eff-Pee-Ess, then 'an' is the correct form.
- Ted C - 04-23-2014 06:52 AM
An is used in front of a vovel sounding letter, otherwise A - an apple, a banana, an hotel, a house. Speaking it would be "an FPS" but reading it would be "a FPS", I suggest.
- Mark - 04-23-2014 07:06 AM
"An FPS" is correct, but whoever said correct grammar is used on twitter?