I see people talk about managing directors and say "An MD".
MD stands for managing director, and you dont say "an" managing director, you say "a" managing director. So why do we use "an" for the abbreviation?
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and grade school level arithmetic (rounding threads)
Get an life, bro.
same reason why some people say "an MBA" instead of "a MBA".
rule of thumb is if there's a vowel-like sound at the beginning of a word use "an". "MD" is pronounced "Em Dee" with the "E" sound being the leading, vowel sound for the word.
This is the correct answer. It’s why we say “an hour” and not “a hour.”
There's an interesting backstory behind the phrase "rule of thumb" as well. The opening of 'Boondock Saints' explains it well. Seriously, if you haven't seen it do so. It's a great popcorn movie. It also has one of the highest differences between the audience score (7.8/10) and rotten tomatoes score (28%) out of any movie on IMDB.
Did you go to elementary school
Alulmni, Alumn, and Alumnus are also not well utilized.
English is a crazy language. They don't even have articles in Chinese.
If you think English is crazy try articles in German. The bathroom is neuter, the toilet and tub are feminine, but the bathroom mirror is masculine. That's all before we get into the accusative dative and genitive cases of each. Of course then you have to deal with both the plural and formal versions of those.
Same here in Portuguese. Besides that, we also have to adjust verbs in accordance with each pronoun.
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An CDO? An POI? An CLO? An QoE?
Doesn't seem to hold for all acronyms
If you're asking that, how are you even in finance at any level?
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