Between

Body

Beauty,about

Quit-e

God

After

Thought

Without

Throughout

On either hand

On the other hand

Establish-ed-ment

Astonish-ed-ment

Met

Immediate-ly

Not

,Nature-d

.Tonight

On the one hand

Hundred,hand

.Under

Particular-ly

.Opportunity Plaintiff Behind Subsequent

Gentlemen

Gentleman

Agent

Word

World

Certain

-ing-ly Creature,accord

Accurate-ly

Cannot

Account, on acc't

Consequent

Foundation

Movement

With the above list, all the abbreviating word-forms have been given necessary, with the derivative abbreviations which may be made from them, for a speed of over 300 words a minute, if well memorized and used in connection with the other instruction given in these lessons, the present list being the shortest, and, in reality, also the easiest memorized, because most of the Half-length Word-abbreviations contain nearly the entire consonant elements of the words they represent. These abbreviations are subject to the same plan of derivative word-building as the other list. Thus, the circle-S may be added to any sign, making thoughts of thought; ing may be added to form establishing from establish; and combinations such as joining the signs for behind and hand may be made, as in sign 269, forming the phrase behindhand, etc., etc;

Other short-hand authors have taken the trouble to compile cumbrous phonographic dictionaries, containing brief forms for many thousands of English words, thus conveying to learners the false impression that it was necessary for them to learn innumerable word-signs before they could become adept at the art of the shorthand writer. The author of this work, therefore, desires to assure all who may labor under such an impression, that it is an erroneous one, the most skilled phonogra-phers of the day not using more than are contained in these lessons. And, in fact, such phonographic dictionaries do not contain more, their ten or twenty thousand outlines being nothing more than variations of the ones these lessons contain, but arranged so that they seem more, and, so arranged, require years to learn, even by the few that can memorize them at all. In these lessons we give all the root abbreviations from which are formed all the other words those useless shorthand dictionaries contain, and our explanation enables the student to make them better than a dictionary can show him, while in addition he will have the principle at his fingers' ends.

Another equally useless work is the phrase book issued by other authors, and made only to sell. It requires years to memorize phrases thoroughly in that shape. We give, in Lessons VIII and IX, the simple rules which govern them all, and in those and Lessons X to XII sufficient examples to enable students, for themselves, to properly make any others.

The Half-length Abbreviations would not conflict with the word-signs, even if both were made about the same size, but it is best to distinguish them by writing the word-signs much smaller than the half-length abbreviations, as directed in previous lesson.