Shortform
“yourselves” in braille
Written y-r-v-s — 10 letters cut to 4 letters of abbreviation, then written in 4 cells. That is 6 cells saved every time the word appears.
dots 1-3-4-5-6, then dots 1-2-3-5, then dots 1-2-3-6, then dots 2-3-4
Unicode ⠽⠗⠧⠎ — 10 letters in 4 cells
How to recognise it
y-r-v-s, four cells. The v-s ending marks all three -selves plurals — ourselves, themselves and this one — and the cells before it say whose.
Two steps, not one
Abbreviated in letters first, then written in cells. “yourselves” loses 6 letters — o, u, s, e, l, e — to become yrvs. Every letter of the abbreviation is then written as itself, one cell each.
| Stage | What it is | Cells |
|---|---|---|
| Spelled out | yourselves | 10 cells |
| Abbreviated | yrvs | 4 letters |
| Written | 4 cells |
It carries no endings
No English word begins with “yourselves” except the word itself, so there is nothing for an ending rule to decide here. These 4 cells write the bare word and nothing else. “good” is the opposite case — it carries seven different endings.
Learn it with the -selves plurals
This is one of 3 shortforms built to the same shape — four cells ending v-s — and the set is far quicker learned together than one word at a time: ourselves (ourvs), themselves (themvs).
What these 4 cells mean elsewhere
Every cell here has other jobs, which is where misreadings come from:
| Cell | Dots | What it is elsewhere |
|---|---|---|
| 1-3-4-5-6 | the letter y; the word “you” standing alone | |
| 1-2-3-5 | the letter r; the word “rather” standing alone | |
| 1-2-3-6 | the letter v; the word “very” standing alone | |
| 2-3-4 | the letter s; the word “so” standing alone |
Check your own text
The translator writes “yourselves” with Grade 2 selected, and the contractions page has all seventy-three.
“yourselves” in braille as an image
The word as it is actually written: yrvs in 4 cells, not 10 letters.
