Narrator: Hadley presents Contracted Braille,
workshop 18 dot four six final letter contractions.
To begin, make sure you have your braille workbook with you.
If you don't already have one,
call Hadley at (847) 784-2816,
and we'll mail one right out to you.
Now let's learn a new set of contractions.
Feel the braille in the top left corner of the page.
These new contractions are dot four six
final letter group signs.
These are the group signs S-I-O-N,
A-N-C-E,
and O-U-N-T.
They use dots four six, followed by the final letter
in the group of letters they represent.
Like other final letter contractions,
these can only be used in the middle or end of a word.
-: Now that you've had a chance to learn a bit with us,
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