[Adduser-devel] Bug#364170: Fix for documentation of adduser --system

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Reuben Thomas said:
> "If an user with an uid in the system range (or if the uid 
> is specified, with that) does already exist, adduser will exit with a warning."
> 
> This is unclear and slightly bad English. How about:
> 
> "If a user with the same name already exists in the system uid range
> (or, if the uid is specified, if a user with that uid already exists),
> adduser will exit with a warning."
> 
> There are two points here:
> 
> 1. "a uid", not "an uid".

This is actually region dependant, and so not technically incorrect. 
The problem is with treating the 'y' sound at the beginning of
'you-eye-dee' as a vowel or not, and the rule isn't clear.
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