Doesn’t Anniversary have a dot over ‘as’ to make it ‘has’? What about ‘had’? Or do you just infer a dot from the context?
Kevin
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Dots are not used in "has" or "had" in Anniversary. Neither are they used in "her" or "him," as they are easily recognized in context.
Thanks!
In addition, in pre-anniv, the h dot can be eliminated in the following words: home, happy, history, and hope.
I got hold of UK Anniversary manual recently. Most things are the same as the US one, but the reading and dictation practice sections have all been modified for the UK market. But I also noticed something else – 'him' has a dot over it (see below Lesson 15 – 'to keep him satisfied', 'to give him a salary', 'show him further proof'). I wonder why that is? Could it be that it was used in the UK but not the US? How strange. Kevin
It was published in 1930.
This is very interesting. I have no idea why that may have been. What's the year of publication of the UK manual?
Expert Shorthand omits the h-dot in many words. Brian
There is a subtle thing about "in" and "not" that can help in transcription, even though they are represented by the same stroke. And it is that "not" usually come after auxiliary verbs, and it is phrased with them — in very few cases, you will write the n separately — while "in" usually starts phrases. So you write v – n – b for "have not been", a – s – n for "has not", s – n for "is not", k – n for "cannot", sh – d- n for "should not", and so on. The word "in" as the first word in a phrase appears in "in the", "in my opinion", "in it", "in the market", "in spite of", "in touch", etc. So there shouldn't be a difficulty in transcribing if you apply the proper phrasing principles.