SHORTHAND PRACTICE-LEGAL OUTLINE WITH MATTER

  I have often sat and watched a web being constructed. The spider has a lot more patience than me, because I stop to watch him when he is halfway through and am likely to leave before he has finished. Mr Spider is a very methodical and tidy character. He does not zigzag randomly and create a mess. He goes in circles and spirals, and keeps going until the web is either the right size or he gets to the middle. People sometimes describe handwriting looking "as if a spider had crawled all over the page" but this is rather an insult to our industrious little friend. The only time spidery writing is an advantage is when the shorthand writer * is endeavouring to maintain a very light touch with the pen. The pressure should be as light as possible, with no more than the minimum extra pressure necessary to get the thick strokes. It is better to think of thin and thick strokes, or light and lighter ones, rather than light and heavy strokes.

    Now that autumn is here, my garden is full of webs strung between the  branches of the shrubs and across the paths. For the past several weeks * I have been getting entangled in seemingly extra-toughened web  filaments, as I attempt to get to the end of the garden path. It is better  in the early morning as the webs are wet with mist or dew, and I can see  where they are more easily. If the web looks new I don’t really want to  destroy Mr Spider’s laborious construction before he has got a meal  out of all his efforts. Sometimes I can lift half of it sideways and  drape it onto a nearby twig out of the way, and quite often the  occupant carries on with the web in its new position. If it is * old and  holey, I don’t mind breaking it because I know it has done its job  and has been abandoned. Sometimes I make a detour or duck under, often only to meet another web barring my progress. In earlier years  this obstacle cou...

 NOTES ON OUTLINES   � “being” “doing” “going” Do not use diphones, as the first vowel is deemed to be part of the non-vocalised short form, and therefore only the dot is required against the stroke Ing. � “coming” “giving” take dot Ing (not the normal stroke Ing for horizontals) to maintain legibility, as the short form does not contain the middle consonant.  � “into” The stroke En is deemed to be the short form “in” and so that stroke is not vocalised.  � “tick the” and the short vertical sign for “he” used only in middle or end of a phrase. Write “tick the” at sharpest angle.  � “on” and “but” are vertical, but are written with a slight right slope when “tick the” is added, to distinguish from “I”.  � “oneself” omits the hook N.  � “woman” and “women” are positioned according to the 2nd vowel, to provide distinction between them.  � “can’t” Such abbreviations for negatives with an apostrophe in longhand are always written as full outlines and f...

 

1. “_____ her name Eliza?”  “No, _____ .” A) What / it isn’t           B) Is / she isn’                C) Is / it is not           D) Is / it isn’ 2. Is your surname Anderson?   A) Yes, you are.                B) Yes, it is                  C) Yes, I am.                  D) Yes, my is. 3. “Is she American?”  “No, _____ .” A) hers isn’t                B) she isn’t                 C) she is not                 D) she her isn’t 4. “____ their names Jack & Benny?”  “Yes, _____ .” A) Are / they are           B) Aren’t / there are      ...

ENGLISH STENO PASSAGE <script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4957217951240873"      crossorigin="anonymous"></script> I met lots *  of old family members, now passed away, via the efforts of my uncles as youngsters taking up the new and exciting hobby of photography and home developing *  of the prints. I met a few children I ought to know very well *  but who now seemed rather distant. They were, in fact * , actually us as babies, toddlers and young ones, captured in our adventures by our ever present amateur photographers, always on the look-out for a snapping opportunity. There I was, smiling happily in my pram (baby carriage), being held by admiring grandparents, getting chased along a beach by someone with a bucket of seawater, and sitting on that wonderful tricycle in a stripy jumper. Yes, it certainly was me but not as anyone knows her now, she was a fresh unwritten sheet, entirely ...

It was a relief to have the fragile and creased ancient photos safely captured, and they could now be viewed on the screen without disturbing the originals. I also had the huge fun of digitally removing all the dirty marks and white creases from some of them * , keeping the edited version as a separate file, with the original scan untouched. I revisited all the early years holidays in Cornwall, Devon and Wales * . There was a large collection covering the years after our move to our present house, and a detailed record of the creation of the garden, from totally overgrown * , to almost park like perfection, a slow journey of path laying, trellis building, and shrub and apple tree planting, as well as several enlargements of the fish pond.   * Omission phrase "some (of) them" Note that "some other" uses doubling.   * "Wales" Special outline, to distinguish from place name "Wells" which uses the Wel stroke   * "overgrown "evergreen" ...

Now that I had them all in a stack I had to consider how to properly *  store and display them again. They would have to be scanned first of course. There were *  other boxes of prints, which  had never been put into albums. They would have to be scanned as well, in order to be able to *  get everything in subject and date order. I also had some boxes of very old family photos inherited from relatives, ranging from small home produced efforts to large professional prints of special events. More careful high res scanning would be required for those. The job was indeed growing by the minute, as I rummaged about for every photo I could find in the house. A comprehensive scanning session was the priority, starting with the oldest ones, as nothing could be put into books until that had been done.   * "properly" Insert the first vowel, and the diphone in "appropriately" as they are similar in outline and meaning   * Omission phrase "there (w)ere"   * "in or...

Earlier in the year, I finally got round to sorting out all my old photographs. What started this marathon effort was the seemingly small task of removing photos from some old albums. They were ring binder folders containing plastic sheets with pockets, which, being now 45 years old, had begun to warp and bubble. I was concerned for the photos but fortunately they were unaffected, but it was necessary to rescue them and give them a better home. The ring binder method was ideal, as it is always frustrating to arrange photos and then find another one that needs slotting between the others.   I was very organised at the time and typed lots *  of tiny captions on sticky label strips to put alongside each pocket. These could not be removed, so I had to interleave the now loose photos with paper strips with scribbled place names and dates. The job went quite quickly and I ended up with wads of photos wrapped in sheets of paper, arranged in two shoeboxes. The albums were destroyed, a...

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