PreAnni: detached t for ted, ded, ed

I’m curious about an item in the 1916 manual: “At the end of many words, ted, ded, and sometimes ed, may be expressed by t being placed beneath or close to the preceding character.”   (section 53)   The examples given are invited     n-v-i / t divided    dv-i / t demanded    dm-a-n…

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Who wrote the plates for…..

Anniversary – Functional Method – Parts One and Two?   I received both in the mail today and I don’t see it indicated.  On most of the other books that I now own (mostly Simplified) the plate writer is mentioned on the title page.  Most of the Simplified seem to have been written by Mr. Rader.  …

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A Course of Study for Anniversary

As I said in my earlier post, I spent yesterday reading all of the posts — back to 2004 — in the Learners Aids/Learners Corner section of the site.   My eyes are tired, but I learned a lot. One major effect was to make me decide to study Anniversary instead of Simplified.  I am only…

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Reversed circle

I am having trouble getting my head round when to “reverse a circle to express r” in Anniversary. Would it be possible for somebody to explain where one cannot “reverse a circle to express r”; perhaps this would be clearer?

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Shorthand Transcription Studies

I haven’t heard mention of this book here before, although I’ve encountered it for sale a few times. I wonder if anyone has seen it uploaded online to share or has information about its contents (I’ve found no descriptions of it yet). At first glance there is nothing to suggest it is specifically Gregg related,…

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A gold mine of information

Yesterday, I went to the menu choice Learners Aids, then Learners Corner and read back through all of the posts…. back to spring of 2004. Wow !!  What an incredibly valuable gold mine of information there is on this blog site.  Thank you, Carlos, for making this available to all of us.  I am blown…

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Ruled vs. Unruled

Maybe this has been asked before. I don’t recall. I was wondering what everybody’s take is with regards to writing their shorthand on ruled or unruled paper? Just about every video on YouTube and elsewhere on the Internet it seems that everyone writes on unruled paper. Anyone care to chime in? Thanks! 🙂

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