Excerpt from Compend of Phonography: Presenting a Table of All Alphabetic Combinations, Hooks, Circles, Loops, Etc., At One View; Also Complete Lists of Word-Signs and Contracted Word-Forms, With Rules for Contracting Words, for the Use of Writers of All Styles of Phonography

In writing his exercises, if the pupil comes to a word that seems to be difficult to write in full, he should turn to the Complete List and see if it has not a contracted form. Everything he writes should be read over with the view of detecting and correcting inaccuracies in this respect. The thorough mastery of these lists of word-signs and Contracted Words is essential to the rapid writing, and correct reading of Phonography.

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