[BRLTTY] Contraction errors: stringent, astringent

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Mon Oct 23 20:36:25 EDT 2006


[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2006/10/17 at 10:56 -0400]

>Stringent (and astringent) should use the i-n-g sign even though this 
>crosses a syllable boundary. 

And even though "ing" isn't pronounced "ing"? That's really strange. What does
the manual say about "singe"?

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