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Amtrak

Today's briefs...

derail TKRAEUL
derailed TKRAEULD
derails TKRAEULZ
derailment TKRAEUPLT

Philadelphia TPEUFL
New York City TPHOERBGS (changed from theory brief due to "no," problem)
Washington WA*UG
Washington, D.C. WA*UGDZ

rescue REFBG
toppling TOP/-LG
-mile-per-hour PH*EURP (defined to attach to the number prior)
mangled PHAPBG/LD

NTSB N*T/S*B
passenger PAENG
passengers PAENGZ

Here's a few new words

Some words that I had to finger spell a portion of to get perfect translation while on the air and are now added to my personal dictionary.

lampoon, lampooning, lampoons, lampooned

Polarization.  I don't understand why I can't seem to write it consistently, but I'm working on it!

En route.  I would have thought I'd had it in there already, but NOOOOO!

I've now added as a result the following words just in case since I'm also familiar with them --
en banc
en bloc
en masse
en garde

Sharing!

Onward and upward!

A simple captioning brief idea

An experienced captioner shared with me her method for writing a show's name with the appropriate quotation marks.   For each show's dictionary, she defines the stroke SHO*E.  For example, "Today in New York" is SHO*E and is input into that station's dictionary, WNBC.  "Newsline" is SHO*E for the NHK broadcasts.  "AMHQ" is SHO*E for The Weather Channel.

A simple solution that works.  You definitely need to make sure your appropriate dictionaries are loaded and in the proper order so you have no on-air disaster...

I also write WEB/WEB for a station's website and define it into that show's particular dictionary. 

Gesundheit

While on the air, one of the news anchors sneezed -- a first for me.  Of course, no one said "Bless you" -- why would they?  Those words are in my dictionary.  Ha! 

Gesundheit!  It has now been added with about 7 different ways I may write it when I can't figure out the true spelling.  GA-ZUND-HYT, GE-SUN-HYT, GE-ZUND-HYT, etc.   I hope I don't find a new way when it comes up again on the air!

Briefs added to the repertoire in the past year!

While watching the Kentucky Derby, thought I'd share some one-stroker briefs... 

Derby TKAERB

victory SROEURBGT

championship KHOEUP

delivery TKHRAEFR

running R-G

winning W-G

spinning SP-G

Louisville HRAOUFL

unique TPHAOEBG

AND an important entry for your captioning dictionary, HA*G - defined as #~ -- hashtag with a delete space.