Dr. Who shorthand sighting

I was watching Dr. Who this weekend and saw some shorthand!  It’s in the episode called Blink from season 3 (the one with the weeping angels).  Here is the link to the shorthand scene– the shorthand is found at minute 1:36.  Below is a screenshot of it.  I guess this is Pittman shorthand, though a…

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Question about books

I only took one year of DJS in high school. After the basic book (I had a Functional Method book) I was wondering if the next books Transcription, Dictation, and Speed Building have any new brief forms or other new “shortcuts” or are they just focused on transcribing properly and knowing proper punctuation and grammar and…

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“Gregg Shorthand in Miniature”

Here is an interesting little item.  The Anniversary Edition manual in a miniature size:  3 X 4 1/2 inches.  Printing is April – 1944 – NP – 4, and there’s an original owner’s signature inside the front cover from April 3, 1947.

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How Big Should My Shorthand Be

Here is some advice by Martin J. Dupraw, a world champion shorthand writer.  This little nugget is found in the Gregg-Kit 2 Series 90, pg. 105.  The shorthand was written by Jerome P. Edelman. (Feel free to swap the .jpeg out with the .pdf I sent you, Carlos!) Key:  Each writer must set his or her…

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Why I Believe in Poverty

This article by the Dutch-born American editor and Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Bok appeared in the April 1915 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal, where he was the editor at the time. The article was so successful that all copies of the magazine were sold, and the article had to be reprinted by popular demand. Its…

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