[BRLTTY] Contraction errors: dachshund, nuthatch

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Sat Nov 25 18:00:29 EST 2006


[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2006/11/10 at 13:06 -0500]

>I can't find any examples of dachshund among my Web-Braille books, but the 
>dictionary shows the syllable break as dachs-hund; thus the s-h sign should 
>imho not be used.

Agreed. It's a German compound word with "hund" (meaning "dog") being the last
syllable.

>I have one example of nuthatch. It must be from the Instructions for 
>Braille Transcribing because it has the syllables listed:

And "nuthouse".

Both are now fixed.

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