Students from Pitman High School High School celebrated their prom Thursday night at The Cart Barn at Pinelands Golf Club in Hammonton. Dressed to impress, the prom-goers enjoyed the evening as ...

My brother’s text messages can read like fragments of an ancient code: “hru,” “wyd,” “plz”—truncated, cryptic, and never quite satisfying to receive. I’ll often find myself ...

In a survey we conducted of 150 American texters ages 18 to 65, 90.1% reported regularly using abbreviations in their daily messages, and 84.2% believed these shortcuts had either a positive ...

This dispute is just one of many such little-known events; for example, another debate has been raging for centuries over who invented the symbol for zero, 0. In The Language of Mathematics ...

Approaches to the recognition of three major components of Pitman shorthand - consonant outlines, vowel and diphthong symbols and shortforms are described in detail. Evaluation shows that the proposed ...

By 1974, she was working professionally on late 19th and early 20th century documents in Taylor and Pitman shorthand ... Through circles, dashes, curved and straight lines, and other symbols, ...

Isaac Pitman introduced ‘Pitman Shorthand’ which was based on phonetics and symbols to represent sounds of speech instead of letters. This method of shorthand was widely spread and adopted in ...

Swem, a writer of Gregg Shorthand and formerly official reporter to the late President Woodrow Wilson. Mr. Nathan Behrin, the greatest writer of Pitman Shorthand the world has yet produced ...

Shorthand, which uses symbols to make it easier to record speech ... The London congress also celebrated the golden jubilee of Isaac Pitman’s system, forerunner of the version I deployed in ...

Then, to figure out whether you need a rain jacket or a full-on umbrella and rain boots, you'll need to decipher the emoji-esque symbols iPhone uses to indicate different weather conditions.

“So legislative recorder George Watt recorded the debates during this legislative session in Pitman shorthand, it’s a 19th century version of shorthand that allowed Wattto capture almost verba ...