Delimiters are characters that separates words in Speakup's say-word feature. These can be edited with I believe the speakup-f7 key. You can certainly remove the period from the list of delimiters, as well as adding new delimiters if necessary. Lorenzo "Linux was made by foreign terrorists to take money from true US companies like Microsoft." - Some AOL'er. "To this end we dedicate ourselves..." -Don -- From the sig of "Don", don at cs.byu.edu