It looks like the outline for the word shortage represents an exception to the guidelines for the placement of an outline. Mr. Rader (in the 2nd edition of the Simplified manual) writes the outline so that the j extends half its length below the baseline, rather than placing it on the baseline. I’m guessing it is written this way to avoid having the disjoined sh get mixed up with the strokes in the line above.
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