diff --git a/src/libespeak-ng/translate.c b/src/libespeak-ng/translate.c
index 6ebb443b..d24165b1 100644
--- a/src/libespeak-ng/translate.c
+++ b/src/libespeak-ng/translate.c
@@ -1959,6 +1959,7 @@ void TranslateClause(Translator *tr, int *tone_out, char **voice_change)
 	int clause_pause;
 	int pre_pause_add = 0;
 	int all_upper_case = FLAG_ALL_UPPER;
+	int alpha_count = 0;
 	bool finished = false;
 	bool single_quoted = false;
 	bool phoneme_mode = false;
@@ -2233,6 +2234,7 @@ void TranslateClause(Translator *tr, int *tone_out, char **voice_change)
 			}
 
 			if (IsAlpha(c)) {
+				alpha_count++;
 				if (!IsAlpha(prev_out) || (tr->langopts.ideographs && ((c > 0x3040) || (prev_out > 0x3040)))) {
 					if (wcschr(tr->punct_within_word, prev_out) == 0)
 						letter_count = 0; // don't reset count for an apostrophy within a word
@@ -2437,6 +2439,9 @@ void TranslateClause(Translator *tr, int *tone_out, char **voice_change)
 					words[word_count].flags |= FLAG_EMBEDDED;
 					embedded_count = 0;
 				}
+				if (alpha_count == 0) {
+					all_upper_case &= ~FLAG_ALL_UPPER;
+				}
 				words[word_count].pre_pause = pre_pause;
 				words[word_count].flags |= (all_upper_case | word_flags | word_emphasis);
 
@@ -2468,6 +2473,7 @@ void TranslateClause(Translator *tr, int *tone_out, char **voice_change)
 				next_word_flags = 0;
 				pre_pause = 0;
 				all_upper_case = FLAG_ALL_UPPER;
+				alpha_count = 0;
 				syllable_marked = false;
 			}
 
diff --git a/tests/translate.test b/tests/translate.test
index 28b96506..192ffc5b 100755
--- a/tests/translate.test
+++ b/tests/translate.test
@@ -47,4 +47,4 @@ test_phonemes en " Ekskla#m'eIS@n kw'EstS@n m'A@k r'eInboU" "⁉ 🌈"
 
 # bug: https://github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng/issues/471
 test_phonemes sk " sm'eju:tsa s'a tv'a:R" "☺"
-test_phonemes sk " bl'ax sm'eju:tsa 'es,a: tv'a:R" "blah ☺"
+test_phonemes sk " bl'ax sm'eju:tsa s'a tv'a:R" "blah ☺"