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Default Why do LEDs generate heat?

On Sun, 06 Oct 2019 10:07:15 +0100, Max Demian wrote:

On 06/10/2019 00:14, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sat, 05 Oct 2019 23:08:43 +0100, Max Demian
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On 05/10/2019 19:46, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 10/4/19 2:51 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:

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I have a LED

That irritates me, why don't you write "an LED"? How do you say
"LED"? I say "Ell Eee Dee", not "Light Emitting Diode". So it needs
an "an", not an "a".

"an LED" irritates me. I know the word is "light".

It's "a LED" if you pronounce it as an acronym.


What do you mean by "pronounce it as an acronym"? I would have said
that means "ell eee dee" as in you're treating it as an acronym rather
than a word and spelling it out.


An acronym is a pronounceable abbreviation, e.g. NATO, scuba, radar.


Ah, I always say acronym to mean abbreviation. I don't care if it's technically wrong :-)