[BRLTTY] Probable contraction error: Lucknow

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Mon Oct 9 16:10:13 EDT 2006


[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2006/10/09 at 15:58 -0400]

>I think anything that's in the dictionary should work right. Things not in 
>the dictionary, such as people's names or weird abbreviations, don't need 
>to be fixed.

I wonder how Lucknow made it into the dictionary. Maybe because it's a state
capital.

>Perhaps excepting if there's a pattern. I can't think offhand of a word 
>starting with "Belv" that isn't pronounced "bell v...". Brltty uses the b-e 
>sign which is wrong, but since these aren't generally dictionary words I 
>don't know whether we need to bother.

"belvedere" ... I'll fix it.

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