Words that must not be spoken

[Jim Hurley]

P.S.

I have run the text through TextEdit.

Jim

> I have just moved over to a Macbook Air running OS X 10.9
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> I have a utility that I have long used for proofreading. I click on a word of text, and RR begins to read from that point on. (Great for distinguishing between references to the  "Public Defender" or the  "Pubic Defender.")
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> It has run well in all versions of LC, but now balks at any text containing an apostrophe or quote and perhaps other characters that I haven't yet explored. It won't even *begin* to speak text containing these characters. But it will speak that same text if I remove just those offending characters. 
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> Is there a language setting in the Mac preferences that I need to change to make the text agreeable to revspeak?
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> Thanks,
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> Jim
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