That's so interesting; JAWS knows how to say 1981, for instance, perfectly well, and it'd be nice for Window-Eyes to have the same privilege. You don't know how that drives me insane. But in English, you are right, we would normally say 1981, 1816, and so on; for the 2000's though, one could either say 2012, for instance, or 2000 and 12.
From: David [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:51 AM To: WE English mailing list Cc: [email protected] Subject: To all Natively English speaking users - I need some feedback: In my local Non-English language, we often use to divide the four digit year number, into two groups of two-digits. That is, the year 1995, would be pronounced as 19 95. As I am working on the Extended Dictionary app, that has been anounced on the list earlier, I wanted to know, what is the official way of pronouncing year numbers in English. Or, at least, what is the general wish of the community. As you all will have noticed, Eloquence by standard wants to read out the year as a full four-digit number. At least to me, I find that rather wearisome, as the number 1981 would produce more verbage, than would 19 81. The app is doing quite a bit of Date handling, and there is a chance here to modify the way of reading year numbers. And, just to calm you all down, the stuff can easily be modified by the end-user. Yet, I want to know, if it would be the wish of the community, to have some kind of modified pronounciation of the years, shipping with the app. All feedback will be appreciated. Thanks alot, David (The Author of the Extended Dictionary app) PS: The Extended Dictionary appp is currently in its Beta-testing process. Hopefully, it will be made available to the community later this summer. Still, this question goes to the whole community, since it has been considered of vital importance. All the modification the app will be performing to any speech output, can be fully controled by the user. Even if the app ships with a set of modifications, the user is free to do what he wants with the shipped entries.
