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Excerpt from McKee's New Standard Shorthand: A New and Simplified Method of Brief Phonographic Writing, Adapted to All the Uses Made of Shorthand Writing in Modern Times The system which this work sets forth is a new method of shorthand writing, constructed with the object of more fully-meeting the demands of modern times. It is the result of much study, practice and investigation, and the principles embodied in it are largely those which shorthand investigators have recognized as being the proper ones necessary to the producing of an ideal system of shorthand writing. The author had for a number of years worked at the formation of what he considered a perfect system of shorthand writing - a system which would: I. Write the English language without the use of position in any way. II. Which would employ a phonetic alphabet of characters capable of expressing all vowels and consonants without lifting the pen. III. Which would use a set of simple rules for contracting, applicable to all characters alike. IV. Which would write all words without the use of detached prefixes and suffixes or arbitrary signs. V. Which would employ but two hooks, large and small, each representing but one sound in all places, and uniting with all characters alike. VI. Which would secure outlines that could be written with perfect ease and great rapidity without becoming distorted and illegible. VII. Which would do away with tick characters in the alphabet and permit strokes, however short or long, to represent but the one sound. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.