The fact that American English has 44 sounds but only 26 letters created multiple duties ... reflected in Pitman Shorthand, which gave women prominence as stenographers when men went to war.

the "First Dictation Book," contain copies of 127 real business letters received from shorthand writers actually at work in various parts of the United States and Canada. View Full Article in ...

By using the shorthand language, a succession of codes enabling them to write at the speed of a person. But according to this podcast documentary by Clara Blein-Renaudot, this was not always the case.

said they were looking forward to more evidence that the inscriptions represent an alphabet rather than another type of writing system. “When you only have a few very short inscriptions ...

However, the academic admits he 'can only speculate' exactly what the writing says. Before the alphabet, humans relied on hieroglyphics, according to Professor Schwartz, who found the cylinders in ...

Symbols on finger-sized clay objects discovered during dig at ancient city of Umm el-Marra could be earliest known alphabet (Glenn Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University) This form of writing may have ...

Using carbon-14 dating techniques, researchers confirmed the ages of the tombs, the artifacts, and the writing. "Previously, scholars thought the alphabet was invented in or around Egypt sometime ...

Relying solely on a keyboard to learn the alphabet and type out written words could be problematic; accumulating evidence suggests that not learning cursive handwriting may hinder the brain's ...

Yet over the past 50 years since Carruth first learned shorthand ... about the Deseret Alphabet in a church magazine. By 1974, she was working professionally on late 19th and early 20th century ...

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 ...

Writing in the middle of the 19th century, Pitman (motto: “Time saved is life gained”) claimed the widespread adoption of shorthand had achieved “the diffusion of knowledge among the middle ...

Thanks to a video by TikTok creator @zachdfilms3, people are learning that there used to be 27 letters of the English alphabet, rather than the current 26. The video explained that the 27th letter ...