Talk:A

Talk:A

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: Now, we can certainly make a case for removing that statement from the lead completely, for being utterly trivial. In fact, anybody who has ever learned to recite the a-b-c in English already knows how the name is pronounced; and people who haven't learned the a-b-c are unlikely to come here to read this article, so we are literally not telling anybody anything new there (unlike with cases such as or , where there are non-trivial differences in usage). But burdening the statement with extra notes about "Received Pronunciation", as if there was anything special about that, seems not very productive to me. [[User:Future Perfect at Sunrise|Fut.Perf.]] [[User talk:Future Perfect at Sunrise|☼]] 13:06, 19 April 2026 (UTC)
: Now, we can certainly make a case for removing that statement from the lead completely, for being utterly trivial. In fact, anybody who has ever learned to recite the a-b-c in English already knows how the name is pronounced; and people who haven't learned the a-b-c are unlikely to come here to read this article, so we are literally not telling anybody anything new there (unlike with cases such as or , where there are non-trivial differences in usage). But burdening the statement with extra notes about "Received Pronunciation", as if there was anything special about that, seems not very productive to me. [[User:Future Perfect at Sunrise|Fut.Perf.]] [[User talk:Future Perfect at Sunrise|☼]] 13:06, 19 April 2026 (UTC)
::How does that explain or justify use of a recording of just one of the many ways to pronounce it? [[User:JMF|𝕁𝕄𝔽]] ([[User talk:JMF|talk]]) 13:32, 19 April 2026 (UTC)