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Is it "an RTS" or "a RTS" ? (kbin.social)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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R is a consonant (indicating "a") but also if you say the word R it starts with a vowel (indicating "an")

both look wrong :(

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

As a gamer, I’m going to assume RTS stands for Real-Time Strategy. I read somewhere a long time ago that just because a term is in the form of an acronym, that doesn’t change what comes before it. So in this case, it’s proper to use ‘a’ rather than ‘an.’ However, I acknowledge that saying ‘a RTS’ sounds icky, so I tend to use the “incorrect,” ‘an RTS.’

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I read somewhere a long time ago that just because a term is in the form of an acronym, that doesn’t change what comes before it.

I was taught this as well, but unfortunately I think you and I were misled.
Still, they both sound "icky" to me, ha.