[BRLTTY] Contraction error and patch: Thingies

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2010/06/08 at 21:00 -0400]

>Thingy is translated correctly, but thingies isn't. I have no idea how
>many dictionaries it may be in (it isn't in WordNet), but it is in
>reasonably common use in colloquial speech. 

It's certainly in my dictionary. :-)

>The following two examples come from the same book. This isn't very strong 
>proof since it's subject to the errors of a single transcriber. However, it 
>makes sense and the current behavior doesn't, so I think it's a sure thing.

I agree, but the proper fix is trickier. What's the rule for contracting 
"inging" when the first "g" is soft, e.g. "rehinging", "infringing", 
"syringing"?

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