[bksvol-discuss] Re: books.google.com
- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:52:24 -0500
Hi Kim,
A fada is the accent mark used in Irish to mark the long vowels. It looks
like the French acute--a diagonal slash above the vowel that runs from lower
left to upper right.
Deborah
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kim Friedman
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Pardon me, but what is a fada? Regards, Kim.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Deborah Murray
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Unfortunately, many of the scans on books.google.com have errors.
I discovered this while scanning the series of Irish mysteries I'm currently
working on.
Many of the Irish words and names have a fada, which looks like the French
acute accent mark. These are often misrecognized. For example, a letter "a"
with the fada will be recognized as a letter "d". I have found these same
errors in the books on books.google.com. When I get sighted help or use my
cctv I find that the word in question has an accented letter.
I have found that I often get better results by doing a general search on
google for the word or phrase in question.
Deborah
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Debby Franson
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Hi everyone!
I appreciate learning about books.google.com on this list a few months ago,
because it came in handy tonight and I was able to find the information I
was looking for.
I am proofreading "The Sands of Time" by Sidney Shelton. In chapter one,
page 1, there was a name that was recognized as Jaime Mir6, which is really
Jaime Miro according to the information on Google Books. I was thinking it
had an acute accent on the o because of the 6, which I have come across
while scanning, but, I guess I'll stick with the plain o as Google shows.
Debby
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