Shortform
“declare” in braille
Written d-c-l — 7 letters cut to 3 letters of abbreviation, then written in 3 cells. That is 4 cells saved every time the word appears.
dots 1-4-5, then dots 1-4, then dots 1-2-3
Unicode ⠙⠉⠇ — 7 letters in 3 cells
How to recognise it
d-c-l, and it comes as a pair with “declaring” exactly as the -ceive words do. It takes -s, -d and -r, which covers declares, declared and declarer.
Two steps, not one
Abbreviated in letters first, then written in cells. “declare” loses 4 letters — e, a, r, e — to become dcl. Every letter of the abbreviation is then written as itself, one cell each.
| Stage | What it is | Cells |
|---|---|---|
| Spelled out | declare | 7 cells |
| Abbreviated | dcl | 3 letters |
| Written | 3 cells |
Endings it keeps
Of the 6 English words that begin with these letters, the reference keeps the shortform in 4 of them. The endings that survive are -s, -d, -r. Everything else is spelled out.
| Word | In braille | Ending | Cells |
|---|---|---|---|
| declares | -s | 4 cells | |
| declared | -d | 4 cells | |
| declarer | -r | 4 cells |
Words that only look like it
Two longer forms exist and the reference writes them out. Each begins with the same letters and is written out in full.
| Word | In braille | Cells |
|---|---|---|
| declaredly | 8 cells | |
| declaredness | 8 cells |
What these 3 cells mean elsewhere
Every cell here has other jobs, which is where misreadings come from:
| Cell | Dots | What it is elsewhere |
|---|---|---|
| 1-4-5 | the letter d; the word “do” standing alone | |
| 1-4 | the letter c; the word “can” standing alone | |
| 1-2-3 | the letter l; the word “like” standing alone |
Check your own text
The translator writes “declare” with Grade 2 selected, and the contractions page has all seventy-three.
“declare” in braille as an image
The word as it is actually written: dcl in 3 cells, not 7 letters.
