Re: [orca-list] Punctuation names

[Jonathan Duddington <jonsd jsd clara co uk>]

On 13 Nov, Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com> wrote:

> Maybe it is just a bit of Yankee in me but I was thinking slash for
> stroke,

The eSpeak US voice does say "slash".

> "line" for "underscore"

I don't like that suggestion.

> "dash" for "hyphen"

I'll change that unless anyone objects.
 
>  I am used to "()" as being left and right parens,

Does "paren" have the stress on the second syllable?

What is your name for brackets < and > 

> Also, is there a way to turn off automatic expansion of achronyms
> completely? That has been a problem with so many software synths; they
> want to imply a complete word for given achronyms and quite often,
> those achronyms are referring to something else or nothing at all.  My
> latest experience with this was IE becoming "for example.".

eSpeak doesn't expand "ie" to "for example", so something else must be
doing that.

I think the only expansions are:

ctrl.  Control.
dept.  Department.
eg.    For example.
etc.   Etcetra.
lbs.   Pounds.
ltd.   Limited.
mr.    Mister.
mrs.   Misses.
dr.    Doctor.