State Abbreviation and Contractions
The Weekly Dose of Braille is created by our Youth Services Librarian and Braille Transcriber, Denise Bean, with the help of our Instructional Materials team. It gives you a taste of braille examples that may be used in worksheets or textbook formatting. It is a miscellaneous mixture of tricky, sometimes challenging circumstances, that a braille transcriber may come across or question. Provided each week is a downloadable PDF file on each topic, a brf file can also be made available for your convenience.
Received this question yesterday, great question to share on the Dose. “Working on a matching activity for class, that has one column of abbreviations, and the second column, that has a list of the state’s full name. Would I contract the AR for Arkansas and the IN for Indiana?
Remember, if an abbreviation can be pronounced individually, then contraction will not be used. The US is a great example to reference. Simple right? Hope this helps provide the answers you need.
Enjoy today and all the others that follow! Thank you for all your hard work and dedication, your precious time is appreciated!
Denise
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