1916 -rd Ending After f

Does anyone know the recommended form for words such as these under 1916 rules?:

offered
suffered
preferred
conferred
referred
pilfered

My guess is “…f [disjoined t]” in each case, because of the -f ending rule, and the disjoined t rule for past-tense of abbreviated words, but I can’t find any rules or any instances of the combination with “-rd”.

“Confered” may be an exception because the root is normally spelled out to differentiate it from the wordsign “confiden(t/ce)”; but then I guess “kf [disjoined t]” wouldn’t be confused.

Also, I can’t seem to find “offer” in the 1916 dictionary or manual at all. Is it in fact “o-f”?

Thanks in advance.

(by routine-sibling
for everyone)

 


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  1. Disjoined t is used for all of those past tenses.    "Offer" is written o – f, as a direct application of the abbreviating principle.  It's in the Pre-Anniversary version of the "Most-Used Shorthand Forms", page 17.

  2. Yes, there is.  Instead of 5,000 words, it contains 1,000 words. Shorthand written by Alice Haggar, (c) 1927, 24 pages.  Words are organized by the lessons in the manual.

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