Excerpt from Every Reporter's Own Shorthand Dictionary: In Which Blank Lines Opposite All the Words in the English Language Are Provided, for the Purpose of Enabling Writers of All Systems of Shorthand to Put on Record, for Convenient Reference, the Peculiar Word-Forms They Employ In addition to the full forms of words, there is room in most Of the blank lines for the expert stenographer to enter his most contracted forms, and to add to the number as he finds it necessary to abbreviate special terms. He will thus, in a short time, compile for himself an invaluable book of refer ence, which he may also use in teaching his assistants and pupils to write in exact accordance with his own style. 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.