[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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