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Pitman's and shorthand
Gregg's shorthand, like Pitman's, is phonetic, but has the simplicity of being " light-line.
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.
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.
It has been described as a script that looks like a " mixture of Hebrew, Greek, and Pitman's shorthand.

Pitman's and is
On the other hand, England, England is the story of Sir Jack Pitman's gigantic project of draining England of everything that is essentially English ( including the royals ), reassembling it on the Isle of Wight and turning that island into an independent member state of the European Union — a project which quite soon develops its own momentum and which survives its founding fathers and mothers.
This is exactly the purpose of Pitman's final project: he wants his island to epitomize everything that is truly English.
Although Pitman's method was extremely popular at first and is still commonly used, especially in the UK, its popularity has been superseded especially in the U. S. by the method developed by J. R. Gregg in 1888.

Pitman's and on
The two strands of action — Martha Cochrane's rise to fame and her subsequent downfall on the one hand and the launching of the project and its continuing success on the other — are intertwined when Martha applies for a job as Special Consultant in Pitman's personal staff, which she gets.

Pitman's and .
Pitman's short book about his desperate escape from a Caribbean penal colony for his part in the Monmouth Rebellion, his shipwrecking and subsequent desert island misadventures was published by J. Taylor of Paternoster Street, London, whose son William Taylor later published Defoe's novel.
If he didn't meet Pitman, Severin points out that Defoe, upon submitting even a draft of a novel about a castaway to his publisher, would undoubtedly have learned about Pitman's book published by his father, especially since the interesting castaway had previously lodged with them at their former premises.
She then continued to study secretarial skills at Pitman's College, Brixton Hill.
Pitman's system has been used all over the English-speaking world and has been adapted to many other languages, including Latin.
Pitman's system uses a phonemic orthography.
" 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.
For a time in 1861 he commanded the depot at Pitman's Ferry, near Pocahontas, Arkansas, responsible for troop deployments and supplies.
For example, strokes " rer " ( heavy curved downstroke ) and " kway ", ( hooked horizontal straight stroke ) are present in Pitman's New Era, but not in Pitman's 2000.

Pitman's and at
Dr. Robert Gardner recalls Professor Pitman's leadership years at Ryerson University.

Pitman's and ),
* Thomas Wilson ( poet ) ( 1773 – 1858 ), Tyneside poet, writer of The Pitman's Pay

Pitman's and for
* Long Live Pitman's Shorthand-A wealth of material and advice for learning Pitman's New Era

shorthand and is
He knew instinctively that next to voice and face an actor's hands are his most useful possession -- that in fiction as in the theatre, gesture is an indispensable shorthand for individualizing character and dramatizing action and response.
The term ' the 10th of August ' is widely used by historians as a shorthand for the Storming of the Tuileries Palace on the 10th of August, 1792, the effective end of the French monarchy until it was restored in 1814.
Thus, for example, V ← V + 1 is commonly understood to be a shorthand for ( V ,( V ) + 1 ).
( In modern times, the use of is regarded as a shorthand for
However, as an exception, the American shorthand " 9 / 11 " is widely understood as referring to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks.
The term " democracy " is sometimes used as shorthand for liberal democracy, which is a variant of representative democracy that may include elements such as political pluralism ; equality before the law ; the right to petition elected officials for redress of grievances ; due process ; civil liberties ; human rights ; and elements of civil society outside the government.
A defendant or defender ( Δ in legal shorthand ) is any party required to answer a plaintiff's complaint in a civil lawsuit, or any party that has been formally charged or accused of violating a criminal statute.
A film maker is colluding with his audience to provide a shorthand learned through a common cinematic cultural background.
The purpose is to create safe handling habits, and to discourage reasoning along the lines of, " I know my gun is unloaded so certain unsafe practices are OK ." The proposition " the gun is always loaded " is used as a shorthand, even though it may be assumed — or even positively known — that this is not true of a particular firearm.
For this reason, however, ' narcotic ' has come to mean any illegally used drug, but it is useful as a shorthand for referring to a controlled drug in a context where its legal status is more important than its physiological effects.
That said, many individualists are willing to use " we " in reference to government or society as a convenient shorthand as long as the fact that these entities are composed of individuals is kept in mind.
If V is a formal language, then V < sub > i </ sub >, the i-th power of the set V, is a shorthand for the concatenation of set V with itself i times.
A shorthand version of Klingonaase, and later with the same term adopted by tlhIngan Hol itself, is called " battle language ", or " Clipped Klingon ".
It is situated in Holland ( then as now used by English speakers as shorthand for the Netherlands ) but by treaty is garrisoned by Prussians and 5, 000 of their troops occupy it under a Prince of Hesse.
The sound of linear timecode is a jarring and distinctive noise and has been used as a sound-effects shorthand to imply ' telemetry ' or ' computers '.
Advocates of phylogenetic nomenclature, a more nominalistic view, oppose this reading ; in their opinion, calling an animal a mammal is a shorthand way of saying that it is descended from the last common ancestor of, say, humans and platypuses.

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