My guess is that you're right and it's the way the person (a kid?) talks. If one reads it aloud, it would be for his supper with the 2 words run together, as for'supper, the apostrophe being there to show that the is of his is missing. Cindy Wish List (i.e., books wanted added to the collection) and books-being-scanned list available at sites below Wish List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Bookshare+Wish+List Books Being Scanned List: https://wiki.benetech.org/display/BSO/Books+Being+Scanned+List --- On Sun, 2/14/10, Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: never seen this one before > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Sunday, February 14, 2010, 3:18 PM > Hi Robert!! > > I have seen apostrophes connecting words. I had to do > a little fixing on "The Sands of Time" because I was a > little too aggressive with replace all and Word saved it and > I forgot to change some back, so the book was returned, and > then accepted after I made the corections. > > One thing that I was asked to change that I had missed > was: > > he'will to "he will" > > I should have done a final spell check. > > Debby > > At 10:24 PM 2/12/2010, robert tweedy wrote > > I just did a book called Rory's Secret by Leisha Kelly > and it put words like this for example for'supper. I > thought it might be the way the characters express > themselves as they tell the story in the first person. I > tried to do a control/h to take them out but for the words > don't it's and so on it takes them out but doing an space > and as and replacing it with 's puts them back in the place > where the spaces go. Any suggestions, using kurzweil 12.2. > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > > Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2684 - > Release Date: 02/12/10 13:35:00 > > > -- > mailto:<the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxx> > -- > Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don't > have. Just dreaming about nice things is meaningless; it is > like chasing the wind.--Ecclesiastes 6:9 NLT > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to > bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject > line. To get a list of available commands, put the > word 'help' by itself in the subject line. > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.