Simplified to Diamond Jubilee Changes

It is my understanding that in Simplified, if you want to add –ed to a word whose root outline does not include a stroke for the final consonant sound of the root word, the added t or d stroke is disjoined, and that one of the changes made in going from Simplified to Diamond Jubilee…

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Shortage

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…

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The Battle for the s

In Simplified: Is there a pattern for which stroke determines the s used between two strokes?  The way decision is written would suggest that a sh, ch, or j wins out against a preceding d or t.  But that hypothesis is torn asunder by disjoin.  The way design is written would suggest that a d…

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Phrasing the Infinitive

One of the things I like about Gregg shorthand is that you can write the infinitive (to + verb) as a single outline.  It seems I get carried away with this.  In reverse transcribing one of the reading selections from the 2nd edition of the Simplified manual, I phrased to use and to send, but…

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The ch sound in mature, nature, future, etc.

Is there a form of Gregg shorthand in which the ch sound in mature, nature, future, etc. (as pronounced by some people, including me) is represented by the ch stroke in shorthand?  Based on my pronunciation of such words, it is unnatural to represent that sound with a t stroke in shorthand.

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bank

I wrote bank incorrectly.  Judging there to be no angle at the joining between b and k, I put the circle inside the curve.  Looking at bunker and spunk in the dictionary, I see that there is indeed an angle at the joining of a b/p with a following ng/nk.  The angle is more obvious…

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The u sound in “unit”

In paragraph 165 of the 2nd ed. of the Simplified manual, the authors use a u with a bar over it to represent the sound of the u in unit and tell us that it is represented by e-oo (small circle plus oo hook) in Simplified shorthand.  In paragraph 192, the authors tell us that…

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