Isaac Pitman's Shorthand Instructor: An Exposition of Isaac Pitman's System of Phonography (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Pitman, Isaac

9780332106755: Isaac Pitman's Shorthand Instructor: An Exposition of Isaac Pitman's System of Phonography (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Isaac Pitman's Shorthand Instructor: An Exposition of Isaac Pitman's System of Phonography

J gale (g-eh-l). Our second illustration deals with vowels, and we take as examples the ordinary spelling of the two words tub and tube. If the shorthand symbols were the equivalents of the letters of the common alphabet, the stenographer would be obliged to write both words by two precisely similar sets of characters, namely, t-u-b. Phonography, however, provides for the representation of the different sounds it and fl. Heard in the respective words, and these are indicated by different symbols, thus.

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