Well, it's all you can do to go along with it and show that you are smarter
than the machine you are using. When that pesky abbreviation comes at the
end of a sentence and you want it pronounced as is, just leave a space
between the word and the period.
From: "Tessa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Braillenote List <[email protected]>
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] pronounciation dictionary?
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:40:58 -0500
Terry, when miss or ill is by itself it's pronounced properly, when followed
by a period it has been assumed that those words are being used as
abbreviations for state names but in most cases where the word occurs
followed by punctuation abbreviations are not what is being intended and
it's very distracting to be reading something and have the vn say something
like "He wasn't in school because he was illinois." if there was no
punctuation after the word it would have just read the word as ill. The same
with miss and mississippi.
Tessa
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