Shorthand writers in Australia date to the early years of colonisation. They brought with them the method of their time and infectious curiosity prompted inventions and improvements through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Shorthand's popularity surged in the 1920s and beyond, coinciding with the new technology of the wireless. What was

The year 2008 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the first publication of King Lear, and for four centuries the play has remained a consummate bibliographical mystery. Winner of the 2007 Jay L. Halio prize for best manuscript in Shakespeare studies, Shakespeare in Shorthand demonstrates that many textual anomalies derive from the play's transcription in Elizabethan shorthand. The shorthand system of John Willis, Stenographie (1602), shows a high correlation with the unusual textual features found in the first quarto of Lear (1608). The patterns of variants in the quarto conform to Willis' rules regarding the reduction of diphthongs and digraphs and the omission of aspirated, doubled, or unsounded letters. In the past two decades the textual interrelation of quarto and folio (1623) Lear has proven one of the most contested issues in Shakespearean studies, and an examination of Stenographie reveals that some of these textual differences result not from authorial revision, but from transmission in abbreviated writing. Bibliographical evidence also indicates that some textual omissions from the folio version are neither authorial nor theatrical, but derive from the printing house.

"A new and easier version of Gregg shorthand--the world's most widely used shorthand system"--Jacket.

Published by John Robert Gregg in 1916, this Book is the Original 5th Edition of the Gregg Shorthand Manuals. This Manual Includes A Detailed Biography About John Robert Gregg and 50 Blank Gregg Shorthand/Steno Practice Pages at the End. This is Great Shorthand Book for Beginners and this is a Self-Taught Course You Can Do at Home! Gregg Shorthand Is A Form of Shorthand Writing Invented by Gregg Shorthand in 1888, and the Most Popular Form of Shorthand in the USA (Pittman Shorthand is Most Popular in the UK). An Abbreviated Form of Longhand Writing, Gregg Shorthand Increases Writing Speed, By Using a Phonetic System of Symbols Which Are Written as They Sound. Efficient Shorthand Writing, A Form of Stenography, Happens with Practice and Time. This Shorthand Practice Writing Notebook Will Help You Get Better with Your Shorthand Writing. Shorthand Can Benefit Journalists, Court Reporters, High School and College Students, and Especially, Stenographers. More About This Shorthand Practice Journal: Size: 6x9 Inches 229 Pages Perfect Bound Softcover Notebook Beautiful Glossy Finish on Cover