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3000 Common Word Learners Dictionary

Facility Drill Books - Phrasing

Print Your Own Shorthand Notepad

Strokes Vowels Reminder Chart

Vocabulary

Shorthand Perpetual Calendar

Dictation

Flying Fingers Poster

JPGs for Phone

Folded Booklets: Strokes, Vowels & Short Forms

Keep Calm poster GIFs

Shorthand Christmas Card graphics

Comparison chart: Benn Pitman 1892 vs New Era

3000 COMMON WORD LEARNERS DICTIONARY

 

I have produced an original dictionary based on an approximation of the 3,000 most common words and their derivatives, with some additions to illustrate various joins or points of theory, totalling over 11,300 outlines. This range covers approximately 85-90% of vocabulary required for non-technical English material.

3000 Common Word Learners Dictionary PDF 58 MB


The entire PDF of 118 pages prints to 59 sheets of A4, double sided

The Strokes Vowels Reminder Chart on p3 of the PDF is also available as a JPG below.

See Links/Shorthand Books page for downloads from other sources of Instructor, Key and Shorthand Dictionaries and Vocabulary Shorthand Dictionaries page for descriptions of various printed dictionaries.

FACILITY DRILL BOOKS - PHRASING

These are the based on the Phrasing pages in Section 4 of this site. Some of the less common ones are omitted, and extras added in. The A4 pages can be used as is, or cut in half to make A5 pads.

Phrasing Book 1 PDF 0.9 MB (based on Phrasing2 page)
Plain Joins and Hooks

Phrasing Book 2 PDF 1.4 MB (based on Phrasing 2 & 3 pages)
Circles, Halving, Doubling, Suffixes, R W L H Imp

Phrasing Book 3 PDF 1.4 MB (based on Phrasing 4 & 5 pages)
Omission

Phrasing Book 4 PDF 0.9 MB (based on Phrasing 6 & 7 pages)
Distinguishing Sets, Miscellaneous, Tick The, Apostrophied

Phrasing Book 5 PDF 0.9 MB (based on Phrasing 8 page)

PRINT YOUR OWN SHORTHAND NOTEPAD

 
Pad - self-test page

Contains A4 lined pages in black, grey, blue, red, green, with 8mm line spacing and margins; speed self-test pages with numbered lines for calculating speed achieved; stroke/vowels reminder list; cover pages; A5 ring binder tab pages. The coloured lines pages show up pencil outlines more clearly.

The pads need to be very loosely bound with long treasury tags or smooth cord, so that the pages can turn easily. They are therefore not suitable for important dictations, as the pages under your hand do not sit as firmly or turn as smoothly as they would in a normal spiral bound pad.

Margins are given on both sides, as A4 paper is longer than the width of two spiral notepads. Keep within margins for dictations in order to add notes on corrections, but repetitive drills can use the entire width of page.

Print Your Own Shorthand Notepad - 20 pages - 3.2 MB

STROKES VOWELS REMINDER CHART

Strokes Vowels Reminder Chart JPG 1.2 MB This is included in the Print Your Own PDF but this JPG is higher resolution. Print at your chosen size and laminate, to make a study aid bookmark.

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Vocabulary

Also available on Vocabulary Word Lists page, where their contents are described:

Dictation

All the blog articles are available as zip files of MP3's on the Reading site www.long-live-pitmans-shorthand-reading.org.uk

Shorthand Perpetual Calendar

Pitman's New Era Shorthand perpetual calendar and vocabulary lists

Shorthand Perpetual Calendar PDF 3 MB

  • A4 page per month, with a brief shorthand passage and text key, from past masters, and days of the month with blank lines for your entries

  • The text of the 12 passages all on one page with word counts

  • A4 page each of Diary vocabulary & Weather vocabulary

  • Notes on outlines, phrases and contractions used

  • Text lists of the vocabs/notes to facilitate searches

  • Spare lined page

  • Can be used every year as the calendar pages contain no year number or weekday names, the outlines for these are available in the diary vocab list

The calendar quotes are also repeated in the Reading site:
www.long-live-pitmans-shorthand-reading.org.uk/gen-list.htm

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Flying Fingers Poster

Poster for strokes revision and self-encouragement:

 
2.6 MB & 2.2 MB jpgs

Desktop background seagulls, to advertise your skills:

  1.6 MB

JPGs for Phone

The strokes, vowels and short forms jpgs are the same as in the folded booklets below.

Strokes & Vowels JPGs ZIP 1 MB = 8 JPGs of all the strokes and vowels

Short Forms JPGs ZIP 3.5 MB = 16 JPGs of all the short forms

120 Most Frequent Words JPGs ZIP 6 MB = 16 JPGs of the list in frequency order (PDF is on Word Lists page)

Ipod Touch screen showing JPGs of Pitman New Era Shorthand short forms  Pitman's Shorthand JPG as desktop background
Shorthand practice JPGs for phone or screen. Having them constantly before your eyes gets them firmly established in your visual memory, the only effort expended is glancing in their direction.

Safety first, shorthand second:

The perils of texting (or thoughts of shorthand) whilst driving:

www.stoptextsstopwrecks.org

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Folded Booklets: Strokes, Vowels & Short Forms

These are small booklets of all the strokes, vowel and short forms 6.5x9.5cm/2½x4", to keep in your pocket or purse, to enable you to read and practise in spare moments when you are away from your study material.

There are also empty ruled pages, so that you can produce your own pocket-sized reading material, copying out passages from your shorthand books. These can also be used for unobtrusive practice, going lightly over the outlines with a hard pencil that makes virtually no mark.

Folded Booklets Strokes, Vowels & Short Forms PDF 3 MB

The 120 Most Frequent Word List on the Word Lists page is also presented as folded booklets.

Demonstration of making up the booklets on my Youtube Channel: https://youtu.be/gZbYsEB_qN8

Pitman's New Era Shorthand folded books – short forms, strokes & vowels

Keep Calm Carry On Writing Pitman's Shorthand - Poster and Bookmark

These go with the blog article of 17 Feb 2013 on the Reading website Keep Calm Carry On Writing

Keep Calm And Carry On Writing Pitman's Shorthand - poster  Keep Calm And Carry On Writing Pitman's Shorthand - bookmark
Keep Calm Poster GIF 65 KB       Keep Calm Bookmark GIF 36 KB

Shorthand Christmas Card Graphics

These graphics go with the blog article "Shorthand Christmas Cards" www.long-live-pitmans-shorthand-reading.org.uk/blog-pages/blog-2012-11.htm regarding making your own cards with shorthand outlines on, to publicise your new skill and intrigue those who have never seen shorthand before. They are just a sample of what you might do with your own photos and creative ideas. Click the thumbnails to get the high resolution image:

   

Tree: Peace on Earth, Goodwill To All Mankind - BMP  1.6 MB
Snow: Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year - BMP 1.5 MB
Berries: Season's Greetings BMP - 919 KB

Christmas Card Wordings - GIF 53KB
This is in flat colour, so you can use Colour Replace easily.

More Christmas-related shorthand outlines can be gained from the Christmas Carols, Christmas Story and Bible Reading Pages on www.long-live-pitmans-shorthand-reading.org.uk

Comparison chart: Benn Pitman 1892 vs New Era

BennPitman1892-vs-PitmansNewEra-Shorthand-long-live-pitmans-shorthand.pdf (2.2 MB)

This 6-page document highlights the main differences between the above-named two versions of Pitman's Shorthand, to help those attempting to read shorthand from that time period. When reading a historical document in shorthand, one might assume a particular outline is the same as New Era, but sometimes it is a completely different word. Strokes, vowels, hooks and other rules were revised constantly, both in UK and USA (where Benn Pitman was resident), so this chart is merely a convenient basic reference and starting point for a careful and thoughtful transcription of the piece.

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