I'm not sure, but if this qualifies as a bug, it is quite long standing (speakup 1.5 at least). Earlier today I wrote: "If it's on the right, replace the 1s with 2s." There is a digit one before the first "s" and a two before the second. However, my current speakup reads this line as: "If it's on the right, replace the s with s." If I place the speakup cursor on the "1s" and hit "read word", I get "s". If I hit read word twice (I.E. spell word), it will then say "1 s". I fixed this in speakup 2 from CVS, but I have no recollection as to how I did it (one of the /proc/speakup files). I'm not sure if this is a speakup issue, or a DEC Express bug which is playing into a speakup feature of some sort. My question is: if this is not a bug, and is some kind of feature, what is the idea? Who would actually desire this behavior? Regards, Luke