An LBS, A LBS, The LBS?

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Loch side.
The Bike Shop? A Bike Shop? LBS is like Drive Side and Non-Drive side. There are better phrases for these things.
 

deptfordmarmoset

Full time tea drinker
Location
Armonmy Way
so far as i know it's always 'a' unless before a vowel. so it's 'A spoon' but 'AN elephant'

so a LBS it is, although the LBS is another thing totally
Cheers Ed
Ah but L is pronouned ell which starts with a vowel. So, subject to concentration, I'll write it as I'd say it: an LBS.
 

lee1980sim

Senior Member
Location
South Yorkshire
so far as i know it's always 'a' unless before a vowel. so it's 'A spoon' but 'AN elephant'

so a LBS it is, although the LBS is another thing totally
Cheers Ed

Ah but L is pronouned ell which starts with a vowel. So, subject to concentration, I'll write it as I'd say it: an LBS.

I agree the "ruling" is if it sounds like it begins with a vowel not if it does or not, just like it's "an hour" as opposed to "a hour"
 

S.Giles

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Ah but L is pronouned ell which starts with a vowel. So, subject to concentration, I'll write it as I'd say it: an LBS.
I guess it depends on whether 'LBS' is considered to exist in its own right as an acronym, or whether it's just a short-hand way of writing 'local bike shop'. Typing 'LBS' saves a few keystrokes, but saying 'El Bee Ess' doesn't save much breath.
 

Cuchilo

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Location
London
I was going to put an elephant is a mammal not a vowel but then I thought mamil and thought it would be funny to find a picture of an elephant in lycra . Some crazy cat must have done it and put it on the internet so I googled elephant in lycra :eek: Don't EVER google elephant in lycra :eek:
 

lee1980sim

Senior Member
Location
South Yorkshire
I was going to put an elephant is a mammal not a vowel but then I thought mamil and thought it would be funny to find a picture of an elephant in lycra . Some crazy cat must have done it and put it on the internet so I googled elephant in lycra :eek: Don't EVER google elephant in lycra :eek:
OK now I want to
 
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