Tessa; In your case, when you type IL., will it pronounce the state name. For some reason, mine is saying ill. I am just being funny, but did they leave the states out of the dictionary! Terry
-----Original Message----- From: Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 8:14 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'Braillenote List' Subject: RE: [Braillenote] pronunciation dictionary? Hi Everyone; I wrote: I am ill. it read it right I wrote: I went to IL. It said ill for Illinois What do you think of that? It will not pronounce Illinois. I am using 5.1 and it sounds like mine is doing the opposite. Terry Powers -----Original Message----- From: Ann K. Parsons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 7:48 AM To: Braillenote List Subject: RE: [Braillenote] pronunciation dictionary? Hi all, Richard Myers writes: > Hello, Terry, > You are a little confused. Most of the web order pages are programmed by > the same people, then sold to web vendors. Those order pages all insist you > enter the state by just two letters. They are inventing English again, but > if you want to buy something from a web vendor, you got no choice. The > three letter designator abbreviations are still as valid as they were more > than 50 years ago. Actually, you're wrong, Dick. The postal regulations and so on do not recognize three letter abbreviations any longer. The times have changed. English is a fluid tongue and the *pronunciation* dictionary should know what it's supposed to do. Get with the program guys! It's 2005, not 1955!! If the BN is pronouncing ILL. as illinois, then perhaps it could be changed in the next upgrade, if you can't change it in the *pronunciation* dictionary! Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT ___ 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
