I hope this doesn't sound like a cop out, but I think that must have been just coincidence. The speech synthesizer controls how and where those abbreviations get pronounced, and we don't have much control over that. >>> rb60@xxxxxxxxxxx Thursday, May 12, 2005 2:51:40 AM >>> Hi, Larry and Rob, I have wondered what happened to the neat feature I had noticed in Firmware beta 15 that caused Book Port to say drive when reading by line and doctor when reading continually for dr. and street and saint for St. respectively. These abbreviations pop up annoyingly often in The New York Times Large-print Weekly and other web Braille magazines. Hope this wasn't the start of the battery drain issue. Smile! Keep up the awesome work. Rob Fairclough