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Excerpt from The Practical Stenographer: A New and Practical System of Shortband
Owing to the initial connexion of vowels, one totally unacquainted with the Art would perceive the emer genoy we were in for characters, they being limited, and found only in lines, semicircles, and segments. Of the first-mentioned, (lines, ) we can use but five - two of these, even, having the same direction, one being made from the top, the other from the bottom; from the second-mentioned we get four and from the third, five, which, together, make fourteen - and sixteen characters are required for the consonants of the alphabet alone. By hooking, etc., the lines, we get a few more, but this addition in the present System could only be given in one particular way. Thus we sustain a considerable loss, and must, one way or another, make up for it. This we have done, and it is hoped satisfactorily; but its time and trouble is now needless to relate. We may however remark, that, independent of the requisite letters of the alphabet, we have represented all the double consonants which could give prepositions or terminations and by allotting to the letter 56, the double consonant wk, etc., fixed characters, and expressing arbitrarily the one or two initial vowelled words which they would be required to give, another difficulty surmounted - saving characters which can undergo change or receive addition, and assigning them to letters or double consonants, before which, in half their usage, vowels are required.
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