[BRLTTY] Contracted English braille error and patch: Hereford

[Tami Jarvis]

Hm... Here in American cow country, we call them her-ferds. But my 
British-accented Orca pronounces it her-uh-ford, which is probably more 
proper. I'm not sure if I would be confused encountering it in Braille 
either way... But I guess the contraction that represents the proper 
pronounciation would be the one that counts? :)

Tami

On 01/09/2014 09:18 AM, Lee Maschmeyer wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> I too would have thought that here was a single syllable, but according
> to dictionary.com it is, or sometimes is, two syllables in the words
> Hereford etc. I'm no expert in trying to read IPA spellings but it
> appears that it can be pronounced her-uh-ford.
>
> Here's the syllabification in a BANA-produced training manual:
> Instruction Manual for Braille Transcribing:
>
> ,her-e-ford ,h}e=d
>
> HTH,
>