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.
Dick Myers
From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: RE: [Braillenote] pronounciation dictionary?
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:00:55 -0500
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
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From: Tessa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 4:41 PM
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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
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