[Corpora-List] medication pronunciations

[Michael Maxwell]

Donna K. Byron wrote:
> Med names are notoriously OOV and the preferred
> pronunciations are difficult to predict
> from the spellings.

That strikes me as odd--surely they're mostly OOV for humans, too; so how
do humans decide how to pronounce them when they read e.g. the label on a
medicine?  (That's assuming of course that you're under 20, or you have a
microscope to read the label :-).)

Or is it the case that people have lots of different pronunciations for a
single medicine?

   Mike Maxwell
   CASL/ U MD


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