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4 unusual facts about Shorthand


Autoreplace

Shorthand, history of different forms of shorthand methods, like stenography, etc..

Education in Tamil Nadu

It also regulates the establishment of technical institutions including commerce institutions such as Typewriting, Shorthand and Accountancy.

Griffin v. Illinois

Illinois law gives every person convicted in a criminal trial a right of review by writ of error; but it is necessary for the defendant to furnish the appellate court with a bill of exceptions or report of proceedings at the trial certified by the trial judge, and it is sometimes impossible to prepare such documents without a stenographic transcript of the trial proceedings, which are furnished free only to indigent defendants sentenced to death.

Shorthand

However, there are other shorthand machines used worldwide, including: Velotype; Palantype in the UK; Grandjean Stenotype, used extensively in France and French-speaking countries; Michela Stenotype, used extensively in Italy; and Stenokey, used in Bulgaria and elsewhere.


40s

Sometimes the '40s is used as shorthand for the 1940s, the 1840s, or other such decades in various centuries – see List of decades.

50s

:Note: Sometimes the '50s is used as shorthand for the 1950s, the 1850s, or other such decades in various centuries – see List of decades

60s

:Note: Sometimes the '60s is used as shorthand for the 1960s, the 1860s, or other such decades in various centuries – see List of decades

80s

:Note: Sometimes '80s is used as shorthand for the 1980s, the 1880s, or other such decades in different centuries – see List of decades.

90s

:Note: Sometimes the '90s is used as shorthand for the 1990s, the 1890s, or other such decades in various centuries – see List of decades.

Autocorrection

For users with the patience, this facility can even be used to create a complete keyboard shorthand system, along lines similar to those of Dutton Speedwords, but with short forms instantly replaced by full forms.

Bad quarto

A few critics — Eric Sams is one example, Hardin Craig another — disputed the entire concept of memorial reconstruction, pointing out that, unlike shorthand reporting, there was no reliable historical evidence that actors ever reconstructed plays from memory.

Cavite Institute

It was founded in June 1947 Elisea Kiamzon Belamide originally offering dressmaking, stenography, and typewriting.

Duployan shorthand

The Chinook writing, or Wawa shorthand, was developed by Father Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune in the early 1890s for writing in Chinook Jargon, Lillooet, Thompson, Okanagan, and English, with the intended purpose of bringing literacy and church teaching to the first nations in the Catholic Diocese of Kamloops.

ED TV

Enhanced-definition television, American shorthand for certain digital television (DTV) formats and devices

Flare Publications

Shorthand of the Soul: the Quotable Horoscope by David Hayward, published by Flare Publications, 1999 ISBN 978-0-9530261-2-8

G2E

shorthand for Global Gaming Expo, a major gaming trade show run by the American Gaming Association

Game six

Several World Series have had sixth games that were especially celebrated, and were referred to by this shorthand expression.

George Chinnery

His father was an exponent of the Gurney system of shorthand; his elder brother William Chinnery owned what is now Gilwell Park in Essex, before he was discovered to have committed large-scale fraud, and fled to Sweden.

Gregg

Gregg shorthand, a system of shorthand named after creator John Robert Gregg

Hanja

Hanja are often also used as a form of shorthand in newspaper headlines, advertisements, and on signs, for example the banner at the funeral for the sailors lost in the sinking of ROKS Cheonan (PCC-772).

Initial Teaching Alphabet

The Initial Teaching Alphabet (or I.T.A. or i.t.a.) was a variant of the Latin alphabet developed by Sir James Pitman (the grandson of Sir Isaac Pitman, inventor of a system of shorthand) in the early 1960s.

James Pitman

Pitman was the son of Ernest Pitman and grandson of Sir Isaac Pitman, who developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman Shorthand.

Jez

Jez is a nickname, most commonly shorthand for the given name Jeremy, particularly in the UK.

Joseph Gurney

On his father's resignation in 1849, he was appointed shorthand writer to the Houses of Parliament.

Marie Bethell Beauclerc

Marie Beauclerc also taught senior boys at the Birmingham Blue Coat School and in addition to achieving as a female teacher of predominately male students in the fields of shorthand and typing, Marie Beauclerc was a teacher of dancing and callisthenics.

Merrion Street

The term Merrion Street is often used as shorthand for Irish Government in the same way as Whitehall or Downing Street is used to refer to the British government.

Mick Billmeyer

Early in his playing career, Billmeyer went by "Mickey", a shorthand form of his given name of Michael.

Nelson Place West

In 1839 Sir Isaac Pitman, the inventor of shorthand, moved into No. 5 Nelson Place West.

Newrite

Newrite is a system of shorthand invented by the American Scientist Walter P. Kistler.

Oliver Dyer

Dyer later travelled to Washington, D.C. to record sessions of 30th Congress as its first shorthand reporter.

During this time, he became interested in phonography, a popular type of shorthand system then being used in Great Britain, and soon developed his own system.

Oranje

De Oranjes (plural of oranje, lit. "the oranges") is a shorthand term used to refer to the Dutch royal family.

Phonography

Pitman shorthand, sometimes called phonography, a system of shorthand stenography developed by Isaac Pitman

Pierre Bertin

Théodore-Pierre Bertin, 18th and 19th century French author, who introduced shorthand to France

Pitman shorthand

The protagonist of David R. Palmer's novels 'Emergence' and 'Tracking' purportedly writes her journals in Pitman Shorthand, declaring it the "best, potentially fastest, most versatile of various pen systems".

Rachel Joynt

She collaborated with Remco de Fouw to make Perpetual Motion (1995), a large sphere with road markings which stands on the Naas dual carriageway and featured as a visual shorthand for leaving Dublin in The Apology, a Guinness advert.

Reformed Phonetic Short-Hand

Reformed Phonetic Short-Hand is an obscure form of shorthand described in a book titled Marsh's Manual of Reformed Phonetic Short-Hand: Being a Complete Guide to the Best System of Phonography and Verbatim Reporting published by H.H. Bancroft & Company in 1868.

Skalnaté Pleso

a shorthand for the Atlas Coeli Skalnate Pleso 1950.0, a popular sky atlas for amateur astronomers that was compiled at the observatory.

The Kallikak Family

The term "Kallikak" became, along with "Jukes" and "Nams" (other case studies of similar natures), a cultural shorthand for the rural poor in the South and Northeast United States.

Timothie Bright

A Treatise upon Shorthand, by Timothye Bright, Doctor of Physicke, together with a table of the characters, was sold at the sale of Dawson Turner's manuscripts in 1859.

Transhuman

One of the first professors of futurology, FM-2030, who taught "new concepts of the Human" at The New School of New York City in the 1960s, used "transhuman" as shorthand for "transitional human".

UBB+1

UBB+1 is shorthand for Ubiquitin-B+1, a frameshifted mutant arising from the Ubiquitin B gene.

Wael Ghonim

Wael Ghonim attended the International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting in 2011, stating that "I feel like Joe the Plumber," referring to the conservative activist who became a shorthand for populist outrage during the 2008 U.S. presidential election.

William Brodie Gurney

He was the grandson of Thomas Gurney (1705–1770), who created the Gurney shorthand system, or Brachygraphy, and brother of Sir John Gurney (1768–1845),

William Isaac Blanchard

Several trials taken in shorthand by Blanchard were published between 1775 and 1791, including the trials of Admiral Keppel and John Horne Tooke.


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