BRL: Braille through Remote Learning
Braille
Reference Desk
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English Braille, American Edition 1994
Braille Formats
Chemistry 1997
Music 1997
Nemeth Mathematics 1972
Reference Sheets
Summary of Rules
- General Rules
- Alternative Contractions
- Single Letter
- And, for, of, the, with
- Child, shall, this, which, out, still
- Part-word
- Whole-word lower: his, was, were, be, in, enough
- Rules for lower sign
- Part-word lower sign
- Whole-word lower: to, into, by
- Double-letter: bb,cc,dd,ff,gg, ea
- Initial letter
- Final letter and short form words
Contractions List
Braille contractions
Typical Problem words
Interactive Resources:
Contraction Lookup
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3. Single-letter Contractions
- May represent whole words only, and no letters or contractions may be added to form other words.
| butt(er) |
hav(en)'t |
(Er)(in) Go Bra(gh) |
| canopy |
go(ing) |
do, re, me, so |
| don't |
William |
peoples |
- May be followed by the apostrophe
- To form familiar conbinations, but never rare or colloquial forms.
| (that)'ll |
(you)'re |
y(ou)'s |
| (can)'t |
(you)'ve |
d'y(ou) |
| (it)'s |
(you)'d |
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- To form possessives.
| (Will)'s hat |
(Ed) (More)'s dog |
(can)'s label |
- May be used with the hyphen
- To form hyphenated compound words.
| m(er)ry-(go)-r(ound) |
self-(knowledge) |
| (people)-to-(people) |
doll-like |
- But may never form parts of words divided at the end of a line or parts of syllabized words.
do-
(ing)s |
like-
wise |
sopho-
more |
un-like-ly
can-o-py
but-ton |
- Require the double capital sign when fully capitalized.
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