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Re: best practice for Americanized foreign words

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From: Sandy Feldman
Date: Jul 14, 2021 11:18AM

Is it an English document? Is it HTML? Do you want your American readers
to hear "very cool" instead of "très cool", and your Canadian readers to
hear "très cool"?

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Sandy
sandyfeldman.com

On 2021-07-14 1:07 p.m., <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am betting that my question has been discussed before, but I cannot find it in the archives.
> I am editing a Web document that uses the phrase "très cool." JAWS mispronounces the first word as an English word Just for an experiment, I marked it up as French, and my wife said JAWS was pronouncing it correctly as French, but obviously that is not what I want for American readers. Does anyone have a creative idea of how to help? (The author has warned me that I do not have the option of using the Delete key.)
>
> Jeff Gutsell
>
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