June 8th, 2007 in Productivity
The Speedwords Shorthand System
Years ago, Reginald J. G. Dutton created a shorthand writing system that shortened common words, and called them Speedwords.
With this, maybe overly confusing, system, words like but, you and because become b, v and zi, respectively.
If you’re interested in implementing such a system in your shorthand lexicon, check out Jonathan Aquino’s Cheatsheet for Speedwords shorthand system.
For a brief history, list of words and pronunciation, check this Overview of Speedwords.
Would, or do, you implement such a shorthand language?
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ray haines says on June 8th, 2007 at 10:51 am
I have implemented the Dutton SpeedWords (for common words) with Active Words so that I type shorthand and the full words appear on the screen.
l = the
b = but
o = on
k = that
u = one
It works pretty well for me.
Ray