In the early 1970s I was employed as a braille transcriptionist at the CNIB Maritime Division headquarters in Halifax. A sighted person was my reader.
We were transcribing a Handicrafts Manual one day and were dealing with the subject of chair caning. At one point in the manuscript reference to “reseating a chair” was made. I don’t know what I was thinking of at the time (I think it happened to be payday), but I spelled “reseating” as follows: receipting.
I was spelling it that way as I wrote it down when my reader broke out into a big guffaw. As a result of that goof, I had to redo the page and I was more than halfway finished at the time. Needless to say, I didn’t live that one down for a while.
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In the early 1970s I was employed as a braille transcriptionist at the CNIB Maritime Division headquarters in Halifax. A sighted person was my reader.