Excerpt from Compend of Phonography: Presenting a Table of All Alphabetic Combinations, Hooks, Circles, Loops, Etc., At One View; Also Complete Lists of Word-Signs and Contracted Word-Forms, With Rules for Contracting Words, for the Use of Writers of All Styles of Phonography In writing his exercises, if the pupil comes to a word that seems to be difficult to write in full, he should turn to the Complete List and see if it has not a contracted form. Everything he writes should be read over with the view of detecting and correcting inaccuracies in this respect. The thorough mastery of these lists of word-signs and Contracted Words is essential to the rapid writing, and correct reading of Phonography. 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.