" Pitman's system uses thick and thin strokes to distinguish related sounds, while Gregg's uses only thin strokes and makes some of the same distinctions by the length of the stroke.

Three miles east of Gettysburg, in what is now called " East Cavalry Field ", Stuart's forces collided with Gregg's division and Brig.

Common names include Catclaw Acacia, Catclaw Mesquite, Gregg's Catclaw, Devil's Claw, Paradise Flower, Wait-a-minute Tree, and Wait-a-bit Tree ; these names mostly come from the fact that the tree has numerous hooked thorns with the shape and size of a cat's claw, that tend to hook onto passers-by ; the hooked person must stop (" wait a minute ") to remove the thorns carefully to avoid injury or shredded clothing.

In Dr. Susan Gregg's The Complete Idiot's Guide to Spiritual Healing, she cites three main signs of a destructive cult, including giving up one's individuality, having their relationships with friends and family threatened, and being asked to donate large sums of money to the group.

In the early hours of 6 February ( five days after Gregg's shooting and just hours before his funeral was due to take place ), about twenty Adair supporters, including White and Adair's wife, fled their homes for Scotland after 100 heavily-armed men from the mainstream UDA invaded Adair's Boundary Way stronghold forcing them to quit Northern Ireland.

Gregg's first lot sale was to Enos Kuhlman.

In 1989 The Allman Brothers reunited and returned to the popular consciousness of the American public, spurred by Gregg's recent FM radio success, the release of archival material by PolyGram, and the start of regular appearances on the American summer outdoor amphitheatre circuit.

After spending part of 1910 living in Greenwich Village, she sailed to Europe with Gregg and Gregg's mother in 1911.

" was used in a New Zealand television commercial for Gregg's " freestyle cooking " range of herbs and spices.

Bennett emails evidence of the backdoor to the FBI from the Moscone Center and tricks Devlin into crashing Gregg's mainframe, undoing the erasing of her identity.

With mid-campaign polls suggesting a Liberal government, this prompted the Conservatives to stop the relatively calm campaign they had been running, and go with Allan Gregg's suggestion of " bombing the bridge " that joined anti-FTA voters and the Liberals: Turner's credibility.

Following the public fall-out with director Paul Gregg, it was anticipated that Gregg's shares in addition to others would be sold to the fund.

*" Allan Gregg's record label to partner with musicians: Takes an ' artist friendly ' approach to payments, benefits " Brenda Bouw.

At the age of fourteen Gregg joined the band The Circus, with fellow classmates George Snow, John Mabarak, along with Gregg's older brother Stephen Aiuto.

Gregg's wing was the 2nd Cavalry Division, led by Col. Alfred N. Duffié, the 3rd Cavalry Division, led by Gregg, and an infantry brigade under Brig.

Buford's wing would cross the river at Beverly's Ford, two miles ( 3 km ) northeast of Brandy Station ; at the same time, Gregg's would cross at Kelly's Ford, six miles ( 10 km ) downstream to the southeast.

They comprised Saki's Kfir, Gregg's A-10, Shin's F-8, F-20, X-29 and Draken, and Mickey's F-14.

Gregg's division, encountered Col. Thomas T. Munford's troopers near the village of Aldie, resulting in four hours of stubborn fighting.

Gregg's division from Manassas Junction westward down the Little River Turnpike to Aldie.

About 4 p. m., Gregg's advance column of the 2nd and 4th New York, 6th Ohio, 1st Maine, 1st Rhode Island, and 1st Massachusetts, under the command of Brig.

On June 19, J. Irvin Gregg's brigade advanced, driving Stuart's cavalry one mile beyond the town.

" Because Korzybski, in Science and Sanity, had articulated his program using " semantic " as a standalone qualifier on hundreds of pages in constructions like " semantic factors ," " semantic disturbances ," and especially " semantic reactions ," to label the general semantics program " semantics " amounted to only a convenient shorthand.

Japanese shorthand systems (' sokki ' shorthand or ' sokkidou ' stenography ) commonly use a syllabic approach, much like the common writing system for Japanese ( which has actually two syllabaries in everyday use ).

Several systems incorporate a loop into many of the strokes, giving the appearance of Gregg, Graham, or Cross's Eclectic shorthand without actually functioning like them.

This was the first shorthand system adapted to writing phonetic Japanese, all other systems prior being based on the idea of whole or partial semantic ideographic writing like that used in the Chinese characters, and the phonetic approach being mostly peripheral to writing in general ( even today, Japanese writing uses the syllabaries to pronounce or spell out words, or to indicate grammatical words.

However, with new technology and keyboards, newer generations no longer need these older communication skills, like Gregg shorthand.

Although over 20 years ago, language skills such as shorthand classes were taught in many high schools, now students have rarely heard of or even seen forms like shorthand.

The practice is rare today, even in the original Loyalist strongholds like southeastern Ontario, but historians and genealogists still use it extensively as a kind of shorthand for identifying the ancestry of particular families.

Regular convex polychora are sometimes named by how many cells they contain, just like n-gon and n-hedron are used as a shorthand for polygonal and polyhedral names.

Loch Lomond ( like Loch Ness ) is often used as shorthand for all things Scottish, an image partly reinforced by the eponymous song.

Cat is also a name or a nickname, either as standalone or as a shorthand for longer names like Catherine or its variants.

Spangles are associated with the post-war era and they, like Space Hoppers or the Raleigh Chopper, have become shorthand for lazy nostalgia for the time, as in the phrase " Do you remember Spangles?

* Shorthand, history of different forms of shorthand methods, like stenography, etc ..

" I have not been able " would be written, " avnba " ( Note that to the eye of the reader this phrase written in shorthand looks like " I-have-not-been-able ", and so phrasing is far more legible than a longhand explanation of the principle may lead one to believe ).

It has been described as a script that looks like a " mixture of Hebrew, Greek, and Pitman's shorthand.

To writers like Joan Didion, Peck & Peck was descriptor and shorthand for a certain fashion look.

Kermit Roosevelt III has argued that " in practice ' activist ' turns out to be little more than a rhetorically charged shorthand for decisions the speaker disagrees with "; likewise, the solicitor general under George W. Bush, Theodore Olson, said in an interview on Fox News Sunday, in regards to a case for same-sex marriage he had successfully litigated, that " most people use the term ' judicial activism ' to explain decisions that they don't like.

While in England, Andrews became interested in Pitman's new shorthand writing system and upon his return to the U. S. he taught and wrote about the shorthand writing system, and devised a popular system of phonographic reporting.

Unlike other shorthand methods, such as Pitman's shorthand, the Speedwords method uses ordinary Roman letters to represent the semantic qualities of words rather than using new symbols.

There have been several versions of Pitman's shorthand since 1837.

The original Pitman's shorthand had an " alphabet " of consonants which was later modified.

There are twenty-four consonants that can be represented in Pitman's shorthand, twelve vowels and four diphthongs.

The consonants in Pitman's shorthand are pronounced pee, bee, tee, dee, chay, jay, kay, gay, eff, vee, ith, thee, ess, zee, ish, zhee, em, en, ing, el, ar, ray, way, yay, and hay.

The long vowels in Pitman's shorthand are:.

Another feature of Pitman's shorthand allows most vowels to be omitted in order to speed up the process of writing.

Pitman's shorthand is designed to be written on lined paper and when a word's first vowel is a " first position " vowel ( i. e. it is written at the beginning of the stroke ), the whole shorthand outline for the word is written above the paper's ruled line.

There are four diphthongs in Pitman's shorthand, representing,,,, as in the words " I enjoy Gow's music.

* Benjamin Pitman, promoter of Pitman's shorthand in the United States

She completed a shorthand typing course at Pitman's College and was a regular dancer on the popular music TV programme Ready Steady Go!

* Marie Bethell Beauclerc-First female reporter ( i. e. Pitman's shorthand recorder ) in England.