Hello Graham and George I’m not an avid text chatter but that is a whole world of abbreviations and almost certainly there are some abbreviations that overlap with older conventions. There are many abbreviations that have been stored in the JDF file for the Windows Live Messenger software. You can of course judiciously remove those that you think are excessive in teh Dictionary Manager thus: 1 Open Windows Live Messenger. 2 Press insert+D to open the Dictionary Manager. 3 Tab through to the list of dictionary definitions and scroll through to find the one’s you wish to delete. 4 Press alt+D to delete these entries. 5 Press Alt+F4 and you will be asked to save the changes say “Yes” and that should be done. You will then have an edited copy of the master JDF file in your personal setting folder which you can then use and also keep as a backup for when you change installations etc. Hope this helps. Regards. Tristram Llewellyn Sight and Sound Technology Technical Support www.sightandsound.co.uk Mail: Tristram: tristram.llewellyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Technical: Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx General – info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Phone: Support line: 0845 634 7979 Sight and Sound Technology Limited is a company registered in England and Wales, with company number 1408275. Sight and Sound Technology Welton House North Wing Summerhouse Road Moulton Park Northampton NN3 6WD VAT Number – GB 860 2121 66. From: jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jaws-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Graham Page Sent: 05 May 2010 02:27 To: jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jaws-uk] silly bug in jaws 11. Hi all. Using JAWS 11 with windows 7 and windows live messenger. Was having a conversation yesterday in which someone asked me what bak files were. When you type Bak in a Windows Live Messenger message JAWS says Back at the keyboard. I can only imagine this is used as an abbreviation sometimes so it’s not a bug. LTr is Long Term Relationship but cr does not say Casual relationship! Would these be in the associated jdf file? Graham Page Home Phone: 0207 265 9493 Mobile: 07753 607980 Fax: 0870 706 2773 Email: gpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:gpage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> MSN: gabriel_mcbird@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:gabriel_mcbird@xxxxxxxxxxx> Skype: gabriel_mcbird ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________