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  2. List of English abbreviations made by shortening words

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... This is a list of common abbreviations in the English language A. ab abdominal muscle (slang ...

  3. List of shorthand systems - Wikipedia

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    Burmese Shorthand 1952 Zwe Ohn Chein Burmese Burnz' Fonic Shorthand: 1896: Eliza Boardman Burnz: English: Carissimi Shorthand [11] 1940: Juan Antonio Carissimi: Spanish: Caton Scientific Shorthand [12] [13] Thomas Jasper Caton: Century 21 Shorthand [14] Characterie [15] 1588: Timothy Bright: English: Conen de Prépean Shorthand [16] 1813: Louis ...

  4. Shorthand - Wikipedia

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    A typical shorthand system provides symbols or abbreviations for words and common phrases, which can allow someone well-trained in the system to write as quickly as people speak. Abbreviation methods are alphabet-based and use different abbreviating approaches.

  5. Category:Lists of phrases - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Lists of phrases" ... List of Latin abbreviations; List of phrases using ethnic or place names as derisive ...

  6. Gregg shorthand - Wikipedia

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    Gregg shorthand is a system of shorthand developed by John Robert Gregg in 1888. Distinguished by its phonemic basis, the system prioritizes the sounds of speech over traditional English spelling, enabling rapid writing by employing elliptical figures and lines that bisect them.

  7. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    This article lists common abbreviations for grammatical terms that are used in linguistic interlinear glossing of oral languages [nb 1] in English. The list provides conventional glosses as established by standard inventories of glossing abbreviations such as the Leipzig Glossing rules, [2] the most widely known standard. Synonymous glosses are ...

  8. Dutton Speedwords - Wikipedia

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    Dutton's shorthand phrase book containing the outlines of nearly 2,000 useful phrases with exercises therein marked for dictation. 1919 Dutton's shorthand dictionary 13,000 shorthand outlines (Second edition). 1919 Graded exercises and key.? Dictation exercises 1937 Dutton's 24-hour shorthand : the system for the million.

  9. Morse code abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Morse code abbreviations are not the same as prosigns.Morse abbreviations are composed of (normal) textual alpha-numeric character symbols with normal Morse code inter-character spacing; the character symbols in abbreviations, unlike the delineated character groups representing Morse code prosigns, are not "run together" or concatenated in the way most prosigns are formed.