Supplement to the Manual of Orthic Shorthand [Orthographic Cursive]: The Cambridge System

Preface

Supplement to the Manual of Orthic

Introduction

Advantages of the Orthographic Basis

Simple, definite, and familiar

Easily represents names and foreign languages

Longhand abbreviations directly usable

Equal to any phonetic system

Solves the harder problems

No need to learn phonetic spelling

Ordinary Style

General Method of Abbreviation

Phraseography

Supra-Linear Writing

Eve

Be

Per-, pro-, pre-

Para, peri

Other Prefixes and Slurs

Acqu

Adj

Adv

Com, con

Circum

Magna, magni

Mb

Mis-

Nch, sch

Tch

Trans

Terminations

Ness

Ve, ‑ive

Ge, ‑dge, ‑age

Gn, gram

Examples of Abbreviations

Specimen: Ordinary Style, Abbreviated

Specimen: Notes on Reporting

Key

[Freely yet judiciously abbreviate]

Modes

Slurring

Short Vowels

Repeated Letters

Other Suggestions

E and i

Shading

Lastly

Specimen: Notes of a Speech by Lord Dufferin at St Andrews

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Key to Page 1

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Key to Page 2

Specimen: Verbatim Report of a Speech

Key: Lord Salisbury at the Mansion House