Pitman Shorthand Cheat Sheet1 March 2009 |
Some time last year a customer who runs a Pitman Shorthand course in Brisbane contacted me. Shorthand is really fascinating and, without knowing it, it was my first real introduction to linguistics because the whole system is phonetic. I had found one of the original Pitman shorthand books in the restricted section of the library at UQ. It was so old that the pages were falling apart - kind of exciting, like a lost art.
It's hard to find shorthand books these days, but I've managed to collect a few - even some reading books. One of the really weird things about reading shorthand is you can read the authors accent (usually British).
Here's a shorthand cheat sheet that I put together for a bit of fun, and just in case all those books disappear one day.
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Comment posted by: simon on 08/05/2010 8:11:34 PM
In the vowels section what does the symbol mean do they mean the word or the thing in brackets?
Comment posted by: Roger Keays on 08/05/2010 8:29:35 PM
The symbols are the IPA representation of the vowel. The words are examples which use that vowel. To learn more about IPA, check wikipedia: