On Wednesday, September 19, 2018 at 8:37:23 PM UTC-4, cshenk wrote:
> Sqwertz wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 20:14:34 -0500, cshenk wrote:
> >
> > > Sqwertz wrote:
> > >
> > >> <shiver> You did it again. "Thunderbird is A program" or
> > >> "Thunderbird is software" (not "A" software) are the correct usages
> > >> of those two words.
> > >
> > > You have issues. Both are correct usage in American english in the
> > > IT industry.
> >
> > No, they're not. Unless you're a non-English speaker who just got
> > off the boat. Those are the only people I've heard use the words
> > that way.
> >
> > -sw
>
> Then we shall simply have to accept you have some odd quirks and leave
> it there.

I've very occasionally heard "a software", but "software" is much, much
more common. Nobody talks about "a hardware" in that way, so "software"
is used as a parallel.

Cindy Hamilton