UEB Rulebook
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10.6.8Use the lower groupsign for "en" or "in" wherever the letters it
represents occur unless other rules limit its use. | |
10.6.9To prevent it from being misread as "enough", do not use the lower
groupsign for "en" when the letters "en" are "standing alone".
Refer to: Section 2.6, Terminology and General Rules, for the
definition of "standing alone". | |
10.7.1Use the initial-letter contraction as a wordsign and wherever the
letters it represents occur; except for the specific provisions given
below; and unless other rules limit its use. | |
10.7.2Use the initial-letter contraction for "upon", "these", "those", "whose"
or "there" when its meaning as a whole word is retained. | |
10.7.3Use the initial-letter contraction for "had" when the "a" is short,
unless other rules limit its use. | |
10.7.4Use the initial-letter contraction for "ever" when the stress is on the
first "e" and when the letters are not preceded by "e" or "i". | |
10.7.5Use the initial-letter contraction for "here" or "name" when the letters
it represents are pronounced as one syllable unless other rules limit
its use. | |
10.7.6Use the initial-letter contraction for "one" when the letters it
represents are pronounced as one syllable, or are in a word ending
with the letters "oney", or are in the words "honest" or "monetary"
and their derivatives. However, do not use the contraction when the
letters "one" are preceded by the letter "o" or when other rules limit
its use. | |
10.7.7Use the initial-letter contraction for "some" when the letters it
represents form a syllable of the basic word. | |
10.7.8Use the initial-letter contraction for "time" when the letters it
represents are pronounced the same as the word "time" | |