From the introduction of the book: “This book sets out to present the whole of the Pitman 2000 Shorthand version with all its rules explained, including all its phrasing principles. All the points made are illustrated with shorthand examples and with sentence exercises for reading, copying and writing. The book is intended primarily for those wishing to acquire a full knowledge of the system.”
Author(s): Pitman Publishing
Publisher: Teach Yourself Books
Year: 1986
Language: English
City: Sevenoaks (UK)
Tags: shorthand, pitman, pitman shorthand, pitman 2000
Cover
Title
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1 Consonants, vowels, punctuation
2 Consonants, vowels
3 Halving
4 L hook, plural for -ing
5 Review
6 Third-place vowels
7 Diphthongs, triphones, SES
8 ST, -STER, halved thickened M N
9 S, Z, diphones, ZH, H
10 R hooks, stress rules
11 Review
12 Hook N to curved strokes
13 Hook N to straight strokes
14 Suffixes
15 Compound consonants
16 Hooks to curved strokes, vowels
17 Reversed initially hooked curves
18 Review
19 -SHUN
20 F/V hook
21 Doubling
22 CON- COM- and similar
23 Figures, negative words, -SHIP, omission etc.
24 Review
Keys to the Exercises
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