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Thank you for your work and I agree that consistency would be good. There are two issues I need to work through: 1. You have edited kingsleyreadlexicon.tsv. I generate this...

I am aware of the issue but thank you for raising it. It's a problem with the underlying text tagging library (SpaCy). I have tried developing workarounds but so far...

Yes, this should work, but it will (I think) mean that if the original text had spaces on either side of the dashes, they will be removed. I believe there...

Can you expand on what you mean? I checked 'incline' and all its related forms and they seem to be spelled with 𐑯𐑒, which is correct according to my reference...

Thanks. All the in- prefixes are spelled 𐑦𐑯-, or should be. That's pretty standard RP, and is also reflected in RP pronunciation as recorded in my reference dictionaries.

I say /ɪn/ which is not itself conclusive or persuasive, but at least shows the dictionaries aren't just giving the /ɪn/ pronunciation due to some archaic convention.

Thanks for these suggestions. I've added them all except for 'tearfilm' which didn't show up for me in any obvious places as a single word. I've used a different pronunciation...

For French words that haven't quite naturalised, I tend to go with the Shorter Oxford, which has 𐑕𐑪𐑥𐑧𐑤𐑘𐑱. This is about as close at an RP speaker can get to...

'Defos'?

I've added these words except 'defos'. I'm holding off adding any more fairly obscure slang until I decide how to record it. Not sure if I need to add an...