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Title: Complete shorthand manual for self-instruction and for use in colleges
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Day Alfred, 1899-1942-. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Shorthand
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio, The Burrows brothers company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s. SIXTEENTH LESSON. 97 The necessity of learning to read unvocalized shorthandis obvious from the fact that it is an impossibiHty for awriter to report even an ordinary speaker and insert all thevowels; therefore you should begin to read from outlinesonly, — from the general appearance of the shorthand char-acters, the same as we read words in the ordinary print.We dont stop to spell out the word, but as soon as theeye rests upon certain combinations of letters we say it issuch a word; another combination of letters, another word.So in shorthand: we do not stop to spell out the outline,only occasionally, but read it from its general appearance;and this practice of writing and reading must be continueduntil the writer is familiar with the majority of outHnes ofwords in any matter he may be called upon to report. 183. The following exercise is to be read and copiedten times. READING EXERCISE. .A Lm j^____ -v-\ :...I_.l....^....^..„L„.!s. ~ • -c ,,. 98 COMPLETE SHORTHAND MANUAL.
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184. The following exercise is to be written, corrected,and then rewritten ten times, WRITING EXERCISE. Insecure, inscribe, insuperable, inspire, unstrung, unsur-mised, unsolvable, unsalable, unswayable, enslave, abler,control, editorial, dabbler, traveler, mackerel, liberal, pas-toral, secular, scholar, fuller, settler, tolerable. SPEED SENTENCE. The following sentence is to be written six times in twominutes : ^ I-write-you in-these funny characters to say I-amto-be instructor in-the Clark Business College in April. REVIEW QUESTIONS.—Sixteenth Lesson. I. What three syllables are indicated by the back hook.*2. What is the name of the back hook ? 3. On what threecurved strokes is it written? 4. Enlarging the /-hook addswhat letter? 5. Enlarging the r-hook adds what letter? SEVENTEENTH LESSON. 99 SEVENTEENTH LESSON. INITIAL HOOK WORD-SIGNS. 185. Inducing the student to familiarize the word-signsand contractions is one of the most difficult experiences ofthe shorthand teacher. Word-si

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