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.

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.

Pitman's brother Benjamin Pitman settled in Cincinnati, Ohio in the United States, and introduced Pitman's system there.

Gregg's shorthand, like Pitman's, is phonetic, but has the simplicity of being " light-line.

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method was extremely popular at first and is still commonly used, especially in the UK, its popularity has been superseded especially in the U. S. by the method developed by J. R. Gregg in 1888.

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

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

Pitman's candidacy in a riding in which the CCF was traditionally weak was seen as a test of this concept and his upset victory was used to convince the CCF and the labour movement to proceed with the founding of the New Democratic Party ( NDP ).

This led in 1961 to James Pitman's Initial Teaching Alphabet, introduced into many British schools in an attempt to improve child literacy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is exactly the purpose of Pitman's final project: he wants his island to epitomize everything that is truly English.

She then continued to study secretarial skills at Pitman's College, Brixton Hill.

For a time in 1861 he commanded the depot at Pitman's Ferry, near Pocahontas, Arkansas, responsible for troop deployments and supplies.

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

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.

Our understanding of the solar system has taught us to replace our former elaborate rituals with the appropriate action which, in this case, amounts to doing nothing.

The connective system, or network, is tailored to meet the requirements of the objective, and it is therefore not surprising that a military body acting as a single coordinated unit has a different communication network than a factory, a college, or a rural village.

But none of this has prevented scientists, philosophers, and even historians of science, from speaking of the Ptolemaic system, in contrast to the Copernican.

He has his own system of shorthand, devised by abbreviations: `` humility '' will be `` humly '', `` with '' will be `` w '', and `` that '' will be `` tt ''.

No action has been taken, however, on such major problems as ending the fee system, penal reform, modification of the county unit system and in outright banning of fireworks sales.

The education program for retarded children conducted by the East Greenwich school system has pupils from at least one neighboring community.

but the government is left with no reserve granary, under the agricultural system it has ordained.

Whereas the maintenance rotary fund had in the past sustained losses considerably beyond expectations, the introduction of the cost-billing system plus other control refinements has resulted in keeping the fund on a proper working basis.

For the past 40 years Congress has advocated a carefully planned, balanced and competitive railway system.

As the Juniors entered the ring, Mr. Spring, the announcer, stated over the public-address system that this was the 28th year that Westminster has held the Finals of the Junior Competition.

A still more sophisticated system has been devised for determining the effective power of the heart itself.

Westinghouse has a similar system, with two classifications representing various levels of competence on the strictly technical side: consulting engineer or scientist, as the case may be, and advisory engineer or scientist.

What does Tri-State actually want to do, now that it has the meters under franchise and certain phases of its piping system in the `` patent applied for '' stage??

It is not clear whether this system bears any resemblance to the in vivo iodinating mechanism, and a system generating peroxide has not been identified in thyroid tissue.

There is some indication from a limited number of interviews with members of the population that the element of power, primarily the voluntary influence of non-authoritative power, has been exerted on actors in the system, particularly in regard to mate selection.

The population registration system still has important functions.

It does show one feature of the system that has not been previously described.

Although a somewhat technical subject, it has important political implications as the above discussion of the voting system indicated.

It has surrendered any claims of description in favor of psychological accounts of nothingness, as in Heidegger's system ( 1929 ).

The submarine has become increasingly attractive as an antisubmarine weapon system.

A water-soluble protein of quite low molecular weight ( ca. 10,000 ) has also been found in this system and partly characterized.

It has been stated previously that a minifying electrostatic system yields a lower resolution than a magnifying system or a system with unity magnification.