[4.0.x] Refs #32956 -- Changed docs to treat the acronym HTTP phonetically.

Backport of 69b0736fad from main

docs/internals/contributing/writing-documentation.txt

@@ -146,6 +146,9 @@ documentation:
 
 * **email** -- no hyphen.
 
+* **HTTP** -- the expected pronunciation is "Aitch Tee Tee Pee" and therefore
+  should be preceded by "an" and not "a".
+
 * **MySQL**, **PostgreSQL**, **SQLite**
 
 * **SQL** -- when referring to SQL, the expected pronunciation should be

docs/ref/class-based-views/base.txt

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ MRO is an acronym for Method Resolution Order.
     .. method:: dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs)
 
         The ``view`` part of the view -- the method that accepts a ``request``
-        argument plus arguments, and returns a HTTP response.
+        argument plus arguments, and returns an HTTP response.
 
         The default implementation will inspect the HTTP method and attempt to
         delegate to a method that matches the HTTP method; a ``GET`` will be
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ MRO is an acronym for Method Resolution Order.
 
     .. method:: http_method_not_allowed(request, *args, **kwargs)
 
-        If the view was called with a HTTP method it doesn't support, this
+        If the view was called with an HTTP method it doesn't support, this
         method is called instead.
 
         The default implementation returns ``HttpResponseNotAllowed`` with a

docs/ref/exceptions.txt

@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ list of errors.
 
 .. exception:: RequestAborted
 
-    The :exc:`RequestAborted` exception is raised when a HTTP body being read
+    The :exc:`RequestAborted` exception is raised when an HTTP body being read
     in by the handler is cut off midstream and the client connection closes,
     or when the client does not send data and hits a timeout where the server
     closes the connection.

docs/ref/settings.txt

@@ -2349,7 +2349,7 @@ already have it.
 
 Default: ``None``
 
-A tuple representing a HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request
+A tuple representing an HTTP header/value combination that signifies a request
 is secure. This controls the behavior of the request object's ``is_secure()``
 method.
 

docs/releases/1.3.txt

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Django 1.3 adds framework-level support for Python's ``logging``
 module.  This means you can now easily configure and control logging
 as part of your Django project. A number of logging handlers and
 logging calls have been added to Django's own code as well -- most
-notably, the error emails sent on a HTTP 500 server error are now
+notably, the error emails sent on an HTTP 500 server error are now
 handled as a logging activity. See :doc:`the documentation on Django's
 logging interface </topics/logging>` for more details.
 

docs/topics/class-based-views/mixins.txt

@@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ same behavior -- except for the format of the response.
 If you want to be really adventurous, you could even mix a
 :class:`~django.views.generic.detail.DetailView` subclass that is able
 to return *both* HTML and JSON content, depending on some property of
-the HTTP request, such as a query argument or a HTTP header. Mix in both the
+the HTTP request, such as a query argument or an HTTP header. Mix in both the
 ``JSONResponseMixin`` and a
 :class:`~django.views.generic.detail.SingleObjectTemplateResponseMixin`,
 and override the implementation of

docs/topics/testing/tools.txt

@@ -717,7 +717,7 @@ A subclass of :class:`unittest.TestCase` that adds this functionality:
   * Verifying that a template :meth:`has/hasn't been used to generate a given
     response content <SimpleTestCase.assertTemplateUsed>`.
   * Verifying that two :meth:`URLs <SimpleTestCase.assertURLEqual>` are equal.
-  * Verifying a HTTP :meth:`redirect <SimpleTestCase.assertRedirects>` is
+  * Verifying an HTTP :meth:`redirect <SimpleTestCase.assertRedirects>` is
     performed by the app.
   * Robustly testing two :meth:`HTML fragments <SimpleTestCase.assertHTMLEqual>`
     for equality/inequality or :meth:`containment <SimpleTestCase.assertInHTML>`.