Frick and Vietti, take and make

In Frick and Vietti’s /Talk and Take Gregg Shorthand/, on the last page headed “Short Forms for High Speed Writing” there are some abbreviated forms for highly common words.  Make : m-a;  Take:  t-a;  Taken: t-a-n.  I’m wondering a bit about phrasing possibilities for these, and derivatives.  ‘To make’ should be tm-a, possibly confusable with…

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Webster’s Political Suicide

This article by the Rev. Thomas B. Gregory was originally written in March 7, 1850, as a reaction to a speech by Daniel Webster, Senator from Massachusetts. The Pre-anniversary Gregg shorthand version appeared in the October 1913 issue of The Gregg Writer. Attachment: websters-political-suicide.pdf

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