GNU bug report logs - #79469
31.0.50; Ungrammatical sentence from describe-function

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Joost Kremers <joostkremers <at> fastmail.fm>
Cc: stephen.berman <at> gmx.net, 79469 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#79469: 31.0.50; Ungrammatical sentence from describe-function
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:58:42 +0300

> From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers <at> fastmail.fm>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,  Stephen Berman <stephen.berman <at> gmx.net>,
>   79469 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:46:53 +0200
> 
> > How's this?
> 
> > +                    (concat (if (string-match-p "\\`[aeiou]" (symbol-name type))
> 
> Potentially problematic, because not every word that starts with "u" gets
> "an". And sometimes words starting with "h" also need "an".

Right.  And how harder would it be to write a more generally correct
function?

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