Words just change over time. Waterproofing used to be water-proofing. I check against the book in question when I can, and follow accordingly.
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More and more books are writing hyphenated words as one word so we will run into this as it appears in print books. Writing without hyphens is preferred useage in some circles and is in dictionaries more and more. Removing hyphens means our synthesizers do pronounce those two part words incorrectly in some instances.Elizabeth At 08:43 PM 7/31/2009, you wrote:Hi Mayrie,I guess I have become used to seeing this in the books I read for pleasure, because it no longer bugs me. It would bug me more if hyphenated words werewritten as one united word, for instance goodlooking. Just my thought. Sue S. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mayrie ReNae" <mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 6:08 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] A proofreading problem to watch out for. Hi Everyone, A very diligent volunteer pointed out a problem to me with many books in the bookshare collection. Very often, words that should behyphenated "good-looking" or "high-fashion" have a space after the hyphen sothat the word appears as two words with the first followed by a hyphen followed by a space. Proofreaders who use braille or who read with their eyes are much less likely to miss reuniting these hyphenated words. I confess that I too have been missing this problem. Groan! There is not afind and replace that works with this because, very often, other punctuation marks scan as hyphens and need to be altered. So, I suggest, after readingthrough a book that you are proofreading, that you do a find on hyphen followed by a space. Check each instance of this and either correct theimproper punctuation, or unite the hyphenated word. It doesn't really takevery long to do, and makes for a much cleaner copy of a book. Just thought I'd bring this up, since it is not a problem pointed out by spell checkers, only grammar checkers, and is not apparent when proofreading using only speech unless you have all of your punctuation turned on. Happy proofreading! And sorry there isn't a good way to do a global find and replace! Read on! Mayrie To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list ofavailable commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.38/2274 - Release Date: 07/31/09 05:58:00 To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput 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.__________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4295 (20090731) __________The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.comTo unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput 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.
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