[BRLTTY] Contracted English braille error and patch: Hereford

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Thu Jan 9 09:22:01 EST 2014


[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2014/01/08 at 22:43 -0500]

>Hereford should not use the here sign but instead the h er e
>construct. Scanning my Web-Braille books I found no matches at all
>for Hereford with the here sign but 84 matches for it using h er e.
>It applies to both Hereford cattle and Herefordshire.

I'm curious about this one. Isn't the "here" in "Hereford" a single, 
self-contained syllable? If so, what's the rule in this case?

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