Every type of computer with every type of speech 
screenreader I have ever owned including the 
apple IIe (showing my age here) and that awful 
sam for the commodore 64, all of them couldn't 
even say my name right, I didn't really mind, in 
fact I found it rather amusing actually.
Steffen.
Coming from Australia I thought the sound of 
american accents coming from a computer was 
funny, so every time I met an american when I was 
little, I'd try and think and see which speech 
synthesiser closely matched their voices.
At 02:06 AM 14/06/2008, you wrote:
>I think it's like many names, a matter of personal choice.
>
>Mathew can have one or two t's, steven can have a V or ph, Jamy can be y or
>ie, liz can have multiplicity of z's, ---- and there seem to be about a
>million ways of spelling lynne.
>
>I'm really glad that neither my online handle nor my actual name are subject
>to spelling confusion, it makes things so much easier.
>
>Beware the Grue!
>
>Dark.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Charles Rivard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 6:35 PM
>Subject: [Audyssey] the spelling of Tom
>
>
>I've always found it strange that Thomas has an h while Tom does not if one
>is to be used as a shortened form of the other.  That's our weird language,
>or another one?  I have seen the shortened form spelled with, and without,
>an h.
>
>   Stop repeat offenders! Don't reelect them!
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 6:26 AM
>Subject: Re: [Audyssey] score posting issue again
>
>
>Hi Nicol,
><Shrug> I have no idea what is up with your Pipe 2 posting issues then.
>Sounds like something BSC Games needs to look at.
>
>P.S.
>
>My name is spelled T o m not T h o m.
>
>
>
>nicol wrote:
> > Hi thom
> > You said that I can only post my score if my score is more than the
> > number1
> > score.
> > Well I was just now able to post my score and that scor was less than the
> > number 1  score.
> > The number1 score on the top10 is
> > • 1 Nicol Osthuizen, 2970114, level 16, South Africa
> > the  score which I tried to post earlier on which I was unable to post was
> > Final Score: 2799459
> > Then after that I played a game with a score of
> > • 3 Nicol Osthuizen, 2864598, level 16, South Africa
> > I got in position 3 on the top10;.
> > So it sometimes tells me my score is too low.
> > Then there should be a bug in the score posting because if it  is like you
> > say, that I can only post a score if my score is higher than the number1
> > score.
> > Then  my score of 2864598 was also then suppose to be too low for posting.
> > So this is what I can't understand.
> >
> >
> >
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