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Fix a minor bug in some languages' Speakable Items System
If you use Australian or Irish (and perhaps others, but not U.S.) set as your region (using the International prefs panel), and you use Speakable Items, here's a workaround for a subtle bug. When using Speakable Items to hear the current day by speaking "What day is it?," the answer is missing a space. This means you hear something like "It apostrophe s Tuesday 12th July." Although not present in Mac OS 9, I think this bug is in every version of Mac OS X...

Here's how to fix it:
  1. Turn Speakable Items off if it is running

  2. In terminal type the following:
    sudo vim /System/Library/Speech/Recognizers/AppleSpeakableItems.\
    SpeechRecognizer/Contents/Resources/SpeakableItems.app/Contents/\
    Resources/WhatDayIsItSIAction.plist
  3. Go down five lines and across so the cursor block covers the open angle bracket in the line <string>It's</string>, after the word It's

  4. Push 'i' to enter insert mode, and type a space, such that the line now reads:
    <string>It's </string>
  5. Push escape to exit insert mode. Type ":wq" to write/save and quit
All done! Now just re-enable Speakable Items and test the new correctly-pronounced current day...
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