THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES THE SHORT-HAND SUPPLEMENT & * <# BY -j* & ^t ^e W . H . HURST Copyright by W. H. Hurst, 1902 THE Short-Hand Supplement BEING SOME NEW INVENTIONS IN SHORT- HAND WRITING ARRANGED FOR WRITERS OF ISAAC PITMAN, BEN PITMAN, HOWARD, MUNSON, GRAHAM'S AND OTHER SYSTEMS OF PHONOGRAPHY. WILLIAM H. HURST CHICAGO 1902 SHORT-HAND. Short-hand has been slowly developed during the past four centuries by a number of inventors. The lives of these geniuses were not contemporaneous. The late Sir Isaac Pitman is the best known at the present time, and he prob- ably added the greatest number of improvements to short- hand of any one man. In his system he adopted the best of the early inventions, and added many valuable ones of his own. Since Mr. Pitman's first edition was published until the present day there has not appeared an invention of importance in short-hand not found in some one of his numerous editions. By this is meant inventions of a funda- mental character. Every author, of course, makes some trifling changes, and so far as that goes, nearly every stenographer deviates more or less from the text-books. The question may be asked: Why, after making such fundamental and important inventions in short-hand as the author considers those herein presented to be, he did not publish a "new system" as others have done when making only trifling changes, or sometimes doing nothing more than selecting a uniform system from the various editions of the Pitman system. There are two answers to this question. The first is that these improvements are only a part of a system which he has developed and intends to publish later. The second, that these inventions are published sep- arately because they may be detached from the others and advantageously adopted by all writers of Pitman, Graham, Munson or other system of Phonography. The remain- ing changes, though quite numerous, are so linked together that to adopt one makes it necessary to adopt another until I he entire system is included. The invention of the large circle for s//, as shown herein, will be found to be almost as important as the present use of the 5 circle invented by William Mason in 1672, and which must still be classed as the most important develop- ment in short-hand, except, of course, the use of straight and curved lines for an alphabet invented by John Willis, (London, 1602). Another invention here presented for the first time is the use of the large hook for m. This use of the large hook will be found to be almost if not fully as important as the use of the small hook for ;/ invented by Mr. Pitman, and which the writer considers one of the best of that author's many additions to short-hand. 452179 Students and Writers of F*h on o graph y . In order to adopt the following inventions in short-hand, if you are a student, omit everything in ihe text-books regarding the large circle. Write the syllable ses with s circle and 5 stem, thus: Passes, scissors, cases, fences, Kansas, advances, gases, fancies, lances, announces. Also omit the lessons on the shon hook. Study the fol- J lowing instructions regarding the sh circle at the same time you do the s circle, and consider the m hook in connection with the 11 hook. If you are a writer of Phonography, first change your writing of the syllable ses, as above recommended, so as to avoid conflict in reading notes. Then adopt all the uses of tht* large circle given below. After }xu have become accustomed to writing the syllable shon phonetically, it will be an easy matter to adopt the m hook. The large circle may be used for s/i or zh in all possible combinations as freely as the 5 circle. The same rules which applv to the use of the 5 circle in your system will apply to the sh circle. EXAMPLES. Shop, bush, shine, gnash, sham, shawl, cash, rouge, measure, reship, motion, passion, vision, trash, shipper, shutter, insure, insurance, pressure, ownership, partnership, courtship, sonship, leisure, vicious, wish, bishop, luxury, initial, washer, push, shot, shod, dish, shake, sugar, gush, shaft, shave, fish, thrash, slash, smash. and j C/i, tcli (As//), ge and dg~e (dzh] may be written with a lialf length stem and a large circle as shown below. nch and The large circle may be written on the same side of half length straight lines as the ;/ hook to form nts/i and ndzh. EXAMPLES. 6 b - Match, ledge, pitch, page, budge, touch, ditch, catch, be- grudge, judge, judgment, matchless, fetch, thatch, notch, speech, inch. Bunch, branch, tinge, punch, drench, cringe, grange, change, trench. t and d added The large circle may be made into a large loop to add or (/, thus: Pushed, mashed, gnashed, fished, lashed, brushed, crushed, rushed. Judged, notched, latched, matched. snon It will be noticed that the suffix s/ion is written in full in above examples. This makes a sufficiently brief outline; but those, whose systems of writing permit, may use the n hook after the large circle for shon, thus: Motion, nation, passion, action, tension, attention, pension, detention. s S or z may be added to the s/i circle by an 5 circle, thus: Wishes, lashes, cashes, gashes, dimensions, gracious. 27* may be distinguished by shading the circle, if desired. but in practice this is as superfluous as the shading of the small circle for z recommended in some text-books for beginners. M The large final hook may be used to phonetically repre- sent in. It is written in the same manner and on the same side of all stem consonants as the n hook. Any stem consonant with ;;/ hook attached may be halved to add / or d, as shown below. EXAMPLES. J J Time, came, numb, dumb, mum, dumbness, cometh, bombs, tempest, mimic, damsel, campaign, damage, income, column, thumb, crumb, memory, memorandum, rhombus, rhomboid, game, campus, broom. Timed, dimmed, named, lamed, boomed, redeemed, groomed, famed, thumbed, maimed, screamed, schemed. 452179 SYLLABICATION. The adoption of these new phonetic principles will not only add considerably to the brevity and speed of short- hand, but will greatly increase its legibility by enabling the stenographer to write a great many more words by syllables. The general rule to follow r when possible is to write a con- sonant stem for each syllable, and to arrange the hooks and circles accordingly, thus: NO Come, comma, pen, penny, push, Pasha, noise, noisy, bush, bushy. 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