Subject pages attached to craig:topic/shorthand

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1.	The Website Devoted to Pen Shorthand This site is devoted to all those people who find shorthand a means of communication, an indispensable business or personal tool for making records and notes, and for those of us (really weird people like me!) who are fascinated by it and enjoy it for no other reason. URL: http://www.geocities.com/shorthandshorthandshorthand/
2.	Encyclopedia Brittanica: Shorthand also called STENOGRAPHY, a system for rapid writing that uses symbols or abbreviations for letters, words, or phrases. Among the most popular modern systems are Pitman, Gregg, and Speedwriting. URL: http://208.154.71.60/bcom/eb/article/6/0,5716,69256+1,00.html
3.	Cool Word of the Day: Ampersand The ampersand was invented in 63 BC by a Roman named Tiro as part of his Latin shorthand system. The symbol is a condensed form of the Greek word et (and). Depending on which font your computer is using to show this text, you might be able to see the crossed "t" at the lower right corner of the "&" symbol. URL: http://features.LearningKingdom.com/word/archive/1999/07/23.html
4.	Shorthand Overview Most traditional shorthand systems use a phonetic representation of a word as opposed to the way it is spelled. English spelling has 50 speech sounds and 26 letters to represent them. URL: http://www.easyscript.com/shorthand.html

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Breaking an Eighteenth Century Shorthand System [James J. Gillogly] This paper orinally appeared in Cryptologia April 1987;Volume XI, Number 2. William Coleman wrote a letter in longhand and shorthand dated 14 Jun 1796. This paper describes the cryptanalysis of the shorthand portions of the letter and the subsequent identification of the system as Byrom's Shorthand. URL: http://members.fortunecity.com/jpeschel/gillog4.htm

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John Wesley's diary for 1740 This small pocket diary in shorthand was a gift to Drew University in 1880 when the Osborn Collection of Wesleyana was purchased by trustee Anderson Fowler. URL: http://www.drew.edu/books/200Years/gallery/gal010.htm

7.	Stenospeed Real Audio files for dictation from 40 to 230 words per minute. URL: http://www.stenospeed.com/

8.	Stenos can still write their own tickets to success [Diana ben-Aaron] Los Angeles Times, May 17, 1993 About half of secretaries today use shorthand in their jobs, according to a secretarial survey by Professional Secretaries International, a Kansas City-based trade association that has 40,000 members. Five years ago, that figure was 90%. URL: http://www.helsinki.fi/~benaaron/zsteno.htm
9.	Gregg shorthand Secretaries have helped busy office executives for years by using Gregg Shorthand for taking down letters, notes of meetings, reports, and other business material. John Robert Gregg, who was born in Shantonaugh, Ireland, in 1867, invented the system. URL: http://www.allsands.com/History/Objects/johngreggshort_rhk_gn.htm
10.	Wilson's Fourteen Points The U.S. entered World War I in April 1917. On January 8, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points, which would serve as the basis for peace in November 1918. The points are shown here in the original shorthand draft by Wilson himself (Wilson habitually drafted his speeches in shorthand). URL: http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm053.html

11.	Miniature Dictionary Replay Media, OH, U.S.A. $2.95. URL: http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookDetails?bi=76269762

12.	Alice in Wonderland 13. PHOTO Gregg/Carroll, Lewis. ALICE IN WONDERLAND PRINTED IN GREGG SHORTHAND. 43 uncredited blk/wh. reduced illustrations including 24 partial Tenniel, 23 reduced by Thomas Maybank & 6 others. Gregg Publishing ([1915]) 1st ed.(D83) Light green cloth dec.red, 12mo, 154pgs. Light rubbing to top & bottom of spine, Very good. handsome copy. $150.00 Lovett no.717. URL: http://www.best.com/~bstallsf/alice.html
13.	Doyle, A. Conan Sign of the Four Doyle, A. Conan Sign of the Four Gregg Publishing Company New yOrk nd brown bds VG, brown no DJ 8vo., 188pp., pages are neat with some penciling, handsome brown cloth bds with some soiling and wear. Book # 008160 Price: US$ 30.00 Aaron's Free Booksearch Int'l, OH, U.S.A. URL: http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookDetails?bi=20320824
14.	Doyle, A. Conan. The Sign of the four New York, The Gregg Publishing Company, nd. (1918). (VG). A curious book with the text entirely in shorthand, written by Alice Rinne Hagar. Small octavo (7 5/8" x 5 1/2") in brown cloth stamped in black. (6), 3-188 pp. Green & Gibson App. VIII.B1a, variant printing with New York, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, and London on the title page. Stained covers, serious spine slant, clean inside. Very good. US$50 Adjala Bookshop, ON, Canada URL: http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookDetails?bi=90886473
15.	Hunter, Alice Margaret Graded Readings in Gregg Shorthand [Combined Edition] Gregg Publishing Company, 1930 Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Reprint. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Corners lightly bumped, light edge wear and rubbing Book # 19486 Price: US$ 8.00. Second Chance Books, OR, U.S.A. Includes Aesop Fables URL: http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookDetails?bi=89963085
16.	Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Sign of the Four Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Sign of the Four. The Gregg Publishing Company, New York & etc., n.d. 188p, 12mo. Printed in Gregg Shorthand. Light wear. Cover a bit grubby. Book # AB527 Price: C$ 40.00 (approx. US$ 25.99) Richard Spafford Bookseller (ABAC / ILAB), SK, Canada URL: http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookDetails?bi=80107689
17.	Hunter, Alice Margaret Graded Readings in Gregg Shorthand Hunter, Alice Margaret Graded Readings in Gregg Shorthand The Gregg Publishing Company, 1919. Hardback, Very Good Book # 44277 Price: US$ 4.50 Abednego Book Shoppe, CA, U.S.A. URL: http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookDetails?bi=77078136
18.	Irving, Washington.- Rip Van Winkle. Irving, Washington.- Rip Van Winkle. New York. The Gregg Publishing Company. 1943. First Edition in this format. Pages 52 pp.12mo. Green printed wraps. Stapled. First Edition in this format. Frontispiece bust of Washington Irving. Illustrated. The classic tale by Washington Irving translated into Gregg shorthand. Annotated. As New. Book # 8776 Price: US$ 24.00 Gadshill, Providence, RI, U.S.A., 02906-5215. Email: gadshill@usa.net URL: http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookDetails?bi=66033342
19.	Irving, Washington.- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Irving, Washington.- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. New York. The Gregg Publishing Company. 1943. First Edition in this format. Pages 90 pp.12mo. Green printed wraps. Stapled. First Edition in this format. Illustrated by Astrid F. Gescheidt. The classic tale by Washington Irving translated into Gregg shorthand. Annotated. Very Good. Book # 8777 Price: US$ 24.00 Gadshill, Providence, RI, U.S.A., 02906-5215. Email: gadshill@usa.net URL: http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookDetails?bi=66033340
20.	Hawthorne, Nathaniel.- The Great Stone Face Hawthorne, Nathaniel.- The Great Stone Face. New York. The Gregg Publishing Company. 1942. First Edition in this format. Pages 50 pp.12mo. Green printed wraps. Stapled. First Edition in this format. Frontispiece bust of Hawthorne (by Daniel Chester French). Illustrated. The classic tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne translated into Gregg shorthand. Very Good . Book # 8778 Price: US$ 24.00 Gadshill, Providence, RI, U.S.A., 02906-5215. Email: gadshill@usa.net URL: http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookDetails?bi=66033330
21.	Alice in Wonderland Carroll, Lewis - Alice in Wonderland. Printed in Gregg Shorthand. New York. The Gregg Publishing Company. 1942. First Edition in this format. Pages 154 pp.8vo. Green printed wraps, illustrated in red and black First Edition in this format. Illustrated by Thomas May Brink (??). The classic tale of Alice's adventures in Wonderland translated into Gregg shorthand. As New. Book # 8780 Price: US$ 48.00 Gadshill, Providence, RI, U.S.A., 02906-5215. Email: gadshill@usa.net URL: http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookDetails?bi=66033212
22.	Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Sign of the Four (In Gregg Shorthand) Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan The Sign of the Four (In Gregg Shorthand) The Gregg Publishing Company Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. No date but inscription inside front cover includes May 6, 1922. Book # 01602 Price: US$ 25.00 Caveman Books, WI, U.S.A. URL: http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookDetails?bi=55702618
23.	Huxley, Thomas Henry Autobiography And Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry Autobiography And Essays The Gregg Publishing Company, 1919 Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. A part of the "Living Literature Series". Edited by Brander Matthews. Very lightly rubbed at the corners, and head and tail-sides of the backstrip. Book # 3290 Price: US$ 7.00 The Armadillo's Pillow, Inc., IL, U.S.A. URL: http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookDetails?bi=54557898
24.	Doyle, A. Conan The Sign of the Four Doyle, A. Conan The Sign of the Four The Gregg Publishing Company Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Cover corners are slightly worn. Book # 3001047 Price: US$ 16.00 Book Oasis, CA, U.S.A. URL: http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookDetails?bi=66275439
25.	American Ideals Serl, Emma and William J. Pelo. (Eds.) American Ideals: Selected Patriotic Readings for Seventh and Eight Grades and Junior High Schools Gregg Publishing Company, 1919 Hard Cover Cloth. Book condition good/no jacket. Pages clean/tight inside/out. ***picture available via email upon request. 160 pages; brown cloth with dark brown lettering and design. Cover is scruffed and darkened. Inscription. Book # 002139 Price: US$ 14.50 Henry E. Lehrich Antiques Better Forever, PA, U.S.A. URL: http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookDetails?bi=53907640

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The Joy of Pitman Shorthand With ordinary, cursive handwriting the best speed of writing is about 35 words per minute (wpm). People, however, speak at about 150 - 180 wpm, so the scribes who needed to record important speech were faced with a physical problem of keeping up with what was said. As a result they developed alternative, quicker forms of writing. URL: http://pitmanshorthand.homestead.com/

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Books and Links about Pitman Shorthand Copperplate: Pitman books have printed symbols which are idealized, each stroke identical to the others of the same kind. It's sort of like the idealized handwriting specimens in a child's handwriting textbook. The process for these special diagrams was called "copperplate". URL: http://pitmanshorthand.homestead.com/PitmanBooks.html

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A History of Machine Shorthand Miles Bartholomew invented the first successful shorthand machine in 1877. Improvements were later made to the machine and patents obtained for it in 1879 and 1884. It was manufactured by Bartholomew's company, the United States Stenograph Corporation of East St. Louis, Illinois, and was used as late as 1937 by official reporters. The ten keys could be depressed one at a time (a letter at a stroke) to create a series of dots and dashes, much like Morse code. URL: http://www.vgrs.vic.gov.au/public/stenograph.html

29.	Teeline Shorthand Welcome to the Teeline Shorthand Journalism page. This is an accompanying resource for the Teeline course provided to MA Journalism and MA Radio Students in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College. URL: http://www.ma-radio.gold.ac.uk/shorthand/teeline1.htm

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The Rhetoric of Record-Keeping II: Shorthand Writing Roman uses, drawing on Greek systems, began with the caesars and flourished, apparently, under the emperors. Shorthand was taught in Roman schools. Cicero's freed slave, Tiro, is generally described as authoring the first truly tachygraphic system, one that more or less enabled verbatim reporting of human speech, by codifying a set of forms--symbols that by their shape and position represented common words. URL: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/3.1/features/smith/episodes/1789/comments/US/shorthand.html