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Re: lang attribute for foreign words found in MerriamWebster's dictionary?

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Apr 22, 2015 7:33AM

On 22/04/2015 14:29, Moore,Michael (DARS) wrote:
> Another thing to keep in mind is that when you use a screen reader you get used to the way it butchers certain words so when we cleverly trick the screen reader into pronouncing something correctly we are delivering unexpected behavior.

Insert joke here about the inability of most English/American speakers
to pronounce "niche" correctly ("neesh" instead of "nitch")...

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