> "John Doe" <> wrote in message
> news:Tzdul.22112$...
> (Crossposted, please feel free to remove the other group)
>
> "andy t" <> wrote:
> "John Doe" <> wrote:
> Dragon Naturally Speaking includes the word "unmoderated" in its
> dictionary. Princeton WordNet includes the same word in its
> dictionary. The USENET archive produces almost 37,000 hits for
> "unmoderated". My text-to-speech pronounces that word just fine. I
> believe the meaning is perfectly clear to any English speaker.
It does not matter what your DNS includes. I have already proved that
speech recognition software be it DNS, WSR or whatever CAN spell incorrectly
nor does it matter where you find your 37,000 hits "unmoderated" is not in
the dictionary, English Encarta or Webster's and if used, would be
considered to be bad grammar and as I explained before, "non moderated"
would be the correct phrase to use in this instance.
http://uk.encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/Unmoderated.html
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Unmoderated
>> "devisive"? There is no such word! If you had put divisive, then
>> you would have been right,
> That is a quote, but I clearly understand the author's expression as
> an extension of "devise". The context is great IMO. I like it.
Just because you like it, does not make it right. Once again as above, it is
NOT in the dictionary and so it is a "non word"
http://uk.encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/Devisive.html
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Devisive
andy t