Who pronounces it like that though? First I've ever heard of it.
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How do you pronounce it?
An is used if the word when vocalised starts with a vowel. Therefore LWB should be an, hotel should not, unless you drop your h's conpletely.
Right......I didn't do GCSE's in English and pretty sure my English teachers would have put a giant red cross through me writing ''an LWB''. Not sure they would have been too impressed if I was using acronyms either.
Have you ever heard someone say el double ewe bee?
When I see 'LWB', I immediately think 'left wing-back', and not 'LWB'. When I see 'WTF', I think 'What the feck?' but when I see 'LOL', I think 'LOL'.
Acronyms/initialisms are weird.
You're correct.
How do you say L (el) then?
Is it reliable?
They're meant to be very reliable for Barca, I think. Especially Polo, the journo
Never knew such a rule existed. Clearly I didn't listen too much in GCSE English.
He doesn't, end of story. Move on.
I'd be very surprised if they thought that Rose was more expendable than Dier. Surprised and pleased as, when fit, he's the best left back in country.
He used an acronym because there's a character limit on twitter.
I'm pretty sure your English teachers are wrong then. Might be something worth creating a thread in general forum about as opinions seem split.
I'm exactly the same.
Dalbert is having medical at Inter.
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InterIsComing 
Never knew this but pretty ironic he got slated for being a paid writer that used an an wrong while being right all along.
That said, I automatically converted it left wing back too and thought it looked wrong
InterIsComing
Lol, that's pretty bad.
When he signs after the medical will they hashtag InterCame?
Yeah, I think so. Left back from Nice.
I see. The Milan empire is really trying to strike back this summer, which is good to see.
How else would it be pronounced?
InterIsComing
And when Perisic leaves they write #InterIsBuilding
More like #Interarelaughing
Hah. Excellent.InterIsComing
"An LWB" is correct when you say it out loud with the abbreviation. Not really a shocking grammatical error
But he was correct.
They'd be wrong.
If the word starts with a consonant, but is pronounced with a vowel sound, you should write 'an', eg. it's an honour
If you write the initialism, then it's read out letter by letter.
You've got an STD (ess tee dee)
You've got a sexually transmitted disease.
Pronounced is probably the wrong word, my point was who the feck actually says LWB? It's not like it's a acronym where people shorten it universally - it's more a FM term. We don't say CB, CF or W, do we?
Exactly.
I don't
but yeah this actually makes sense now that its a better example. Same logic would apply to ''an MBE'' as well so I guess.Still no one will pronounce as the letters instead of left wing back when the read it.
Think we have derailed the thread enough so instead of me (incorrectly or otherwise) taking the piss out of Delaney saying an LWB, I'll instead call back in to question his unreliability as a source and call bs on his latest nonsense.
There we go back on topic.
Fair point, but people do say DM weirdly.
I actually say CM, DM, AM, CB.
Lots of chit chat about us and Inter being in for Rose this morning across various media outlets.
Not me. But then, I was a boyhood fan of my company and they sing "He's one of our own" every time I turn up for work
Think Chelsea are still a bit salty over the Lukaku coup. They just seem to be after all our linked players too. Bless 'em!
Probably "Luh Wuh Buh"
We've been rumoured to be interested in Bale to ages and he's rumoured to never have given a shit about us as his destination. If any of that was true, I don't Bale now wants to move to United unless Madrid tells him he's no longer required. Neither does that look very likely nor would it leave a very interested (or fit) player possibly coming to United.
It's not Miguel Delaney's grammar that makes him a crap journalist