Hi all,

The attached patch fixes bluenose, bottlenose, saddlenose and tubenose. These are easy and safe since they're compound words; blue, tube, etc. are words in themselves and thus I think should not participate in contractions.

Dave suggested adenose and venose. I can't find any uses of these in my braille books and the dictionaries I've checked don't have syllabification. However, it's OK to use a contraction when going from an unaccented syllable to an accented one or the other way around, so I think the en sign in these words would be correct.

The one that has me puzzled is Brasenose, one of the colleges in Oxford. It used to be called Brazen Nose if that's any help. I don't know how it's pronounced, but it seems to be going from an accented to an unaccented syllable so my guess is that the en sign would be right.

HTH,

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Lee Maschmeyer

"Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." --Lewis Carroll

Attachment: Bottlenose.patch
Description: Binary data

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