Shorthand

the Lord's prayer in different forms of shorthand.

Shorthand or stenography is a way of writing. Shorthand systems allow people to write much faster. Shorthand systems have been in use since antiquity. Now, they are not used as much, because there are dictation machines to record voices.

Shorthand Media

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  Dutch stenography using the "System Groote"

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  Sun Guoting's Treatise on Calligraphy, an example of cursive writing of Chinese characters

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  Tombstone of Heinrich Roller, inventor of a German shorthand system, with a sample of his shorthand

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Other websites

• Shorthand Untangled Archived 2016-03-31 at the Wayback Machine - A site dealing with the skills of shorthand, with lots of learning and practice material
• Teeline Online - Learn Teeline Shorthand in your own time - online and offline lessons, exercises, assignments, shortcuts - all you need to either refresh or start from scratch
• A full description in English of the Dutch shorthand system Groote
• A complete Dutch book from 1925 about system Groote
• A downloadable Teeline book (MSWord), written for journalists in particular Archived 2008-09-17 at the Wayback Machine (see Teeline)
• Dictation disc samples for free download
• AgiliWriting - an alphabetic shorthand Archived 2008-07-08 at the Wayback Machine
• Alpha, the Easy Alphabetic Shorthand Archived 2008-06-15 at the Wayback Machine
• Handywrite, a phonetic shorthand system
• Keyscript is a fully alphabetical shorthand based on Pitman's. It saves 60% of writing
• Sound writing - a learning resource from the British Library
• The Shorthand Place - includes chronological list of shorthand systems
• The Louis A. Leslie Collection of Historical Shorthand Materials. Archived 2008-05-25 at the Wayback Machine
• The Shorthand World and Imperial Typist magazine vol. 1 and vol. 5 available on Google Books