FOLLOWING I use Facebook quite a lot to keep up with my friends, although I had to delete Words With Friends from my phone because it was wasting too much of my time.
Examples of Burchfield's deleted words include balisaur, an Indian badger-like animal; the American English wake-up, a golden-winged woodpecker; boviander, the name in British Guyana for a person of mixed race living on the river banks; and danchi, a Bengali shrub.
Two other memorable things about "Stet" were its punchy title — publishing speak for "let it stand," penciled in the margins of a manuscript when deleted words need to be saved — and (why not admit it?) its cover upon which the young Ms. Athill, in a photograph, bore an uncanny resemblance to Cate Blanchett.
"There's lots of Xs to delete words.
If N is the total number of words in an evaluation data set (reference), S, I, and D reflect the total number of substituted, inserted, and deleted words in recognized hypothesis, respectively, and H = N - (S + D) is the total number of words in hypothesis, then Acc = H - I N and Corr = H N. (8).
If a student cannot suggest a deletion entry that maintains some meaning for part of a passage, it seems valid to assume that they have difficulty in understanding the deleted word.
In some Ulster dialects, such as that of Tory Island, /x/ can be replaced by /h/, e.g. /ha/ "not", and can even be deleted word-finally, as in /ˈsˠan̪ˠt̪ˠah ~ ˈsˠan̪ˠt̪ˠa/ "greedy".
If you are omitting words, indicate the deleted word or words by using an ellipsis marks (3 periods that are preceded and followed by a space).
