Shortform
“tomorrow” in braille
Written t-m — 8 letters cut to 2 letters of abbreviation, then written in 2 cells. That is 6 cells saved every time the word appears.
dots 2-3-4-5, then dots 1-3-4
Unicode ⠞⠍ — 8 letters in 2 cells
How to recognise it
t-m, eight letters in two cells — six saved, matched among two-cell shortforms only by “children” and beaten only by “according”. Only the plural keeps it.
Two steps, not one
Abbreviated in letters first, then written in cells. “tomorrow” loses 6 letters — o, o, r, r, o, w — to become tm. Every letter of the abbreviation is then written as itself, one cell each.
| Stage | What it is | Cells |
|---|---|---|
| Spelled out | tomorrow | 8 cells |
| Abbreviated | tm | 2 letters |
| Written | 2 cells |
Endings it keeps
Of the 4 English words that begin with these letters, the reference keeps the shortform in 1 of them. The one ending that survives is -s. Everything else is spelled out.
| Word | In braille | Ending | Cells |
|---|---|---|---|
| tomorrows | -s | 3 cells |
Words that only look like it
Three derived words exist and the reference writes all three out. Each begins with the same letters and is written out in full.
| Word | In braille | Cells |
|---|---|---|
| tomorrower | 8 cells | |
| tomorrowing | 8 cells | |
| tomorrowness | 9 cells |
Learn it with the to- words
This is one of 4 shortforms built to the same shape — a t, then one letter — and the set is far quicker learned together than one word at a time: today (td), together (tgr), tonight (tn).
What these 2 cells mean elsewhere
Every cell here has other jobs, which is where misreadings come from:
| Cell | Dots | What it is elsewhere |
|---|---|---|
| 2-3-4-5 | the letter t; the word “that” standing alone | |
| 1-3-4 | the letter m; the word “more” standing alone |
Check your own text
The translator writes “tomorrow” with Grade 2 selected, and the contractions page has all seventy-three.
“tomorrow” in braille as an image
The word as it is actually written: tm in 2 cells, not 8 letters.
