[BRLTTY] Contraction error: Caledonia

[Lee Maschmeyer]

Hello Keith,

You think you're a braille nerd? You should have seen the first time I wrote 
this message! :-)

If we accept your contention that the e-a sign in Create is an error, then 
NLS would have to revise virtually every one of its Web Braille books and 
presumably at least the vast majority of its hard-copy ones. In fact I just 
did a scan of my downloaded book collection for "create" spelled out. The 
collection comprises 124 authors and I don't know how many books. I found 
seven occurrences. They all came from Instruction Manual for Braille 
Transcribing and appear in lines in which all other words are also spelled 
out. Here they are; these must be viewed in computer braille:

pebble create middle succotash meddle
beginning ,god created the heaven and
created a crisis in the ,possum ,hollow
  #b4 ,since all men are created equal1
.government did not create the .states
of this republic4 ,the .states created
distingu`e prot`eg`e created a sensation

-- 
Lee Maschmeyer
<lee_maschmeyer at wayne.edu>

"Be kind to your fur-bearing friends,
For a skunk may be somebody's brother."
     --Fred Allen