Terry, Illinois is a two letter word. Most of them are two letters, with a capital letter for each letter.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Braillenote List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 3:00 PM Subject: RE: [Braillenote] pronounciation dictionary? > Hi Tessa; > That should not be happening. Our states are represented with 2 letters now > a days. Ill is a 3 letter word. There must be something wrong either with > your dictionary or Pulsedata's as a whole. Is this happening to other > people too? I have not noticed this happen yet. If I get a chance, I will > try it out. > Terry Powers > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tessa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 4:41 PM > To: Braillenote List > Subject: Re: [Braillenote] pronounciation dictionary? > > > 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 > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >
