LIST OF 700 COMMON SHORTHAND OUTLINES ARRANGED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER ‘THESE OUTLINES REPRESENT APPROXIMATELY 68 PER CE! INT OF THE WORDS CONTAINED IN ORDINARY ENGLISH MATTER* ax} aw Aste ABOUT ABOVE _— ACCORDING ACCOUNT ACROSS act ADD ADVANTAGE ADVERTISE ADVERTISED ADVERTISE- MENT AFTER AFTERNOON AGAIN AGE Aco AGREE AIR HEIR ALL ALONG ALSO ALTOGETHER AM AMONG AMOUNT AN (See A) AND ANIMAL, ANNOUNCE ANOTHER ANSWER ANY IN APPEAR APRIL ARE ar ATTEMPT ATTENTION AuGust AUTHORITY Away AWE (See OUGHT) ay (See J) Baby wack ° BAD BALANCE BANK BASE BE BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE BECOME BED BEFORE pecin BEHIND pevier neuieve } BELIEVED Best BETTER BETWEEN BEYOND Bio BLACK bLuE BOARD Bovy BooK worn soucHr gov Buoy Neo... % a ML és \ \ Near AS =" © See note regarding frequency with derivative outlines, page 8.BRAKE (See BREAK) BREAD BREAK BRAKE BRING BROTHER oy 7 BROUGHT -\- . ssp BUILD BUILDING BUILT BUOY (See BOY) BURN BUSINESS } CALL Bur Buy BY BYE CAME can CAPITAL, CAR 4 CARE ne CARRY CASE CAUSE CERTAIN CHANGE CHARACTER CHARGE CHEAP CHECK CHEQUE CHIEF cH CHILDREN cry CLEAN CLEAR COAL COARSE (See COURSE) cou coLour come comrort commit common COMPANY COMPETITION COMPLETE CONDITION CONNECT CONSIDER CONTINUE CONTROL cory cost coun country COURSE COARSE COVER CREDIT cry custom cur ‘oanoer Date pay DEAR DECEMBER peer peGnee DELIVER DELIVERED DELIVERY DEMAND } DEPEND DESIRE DETAIL [ c & ak DEVELOP. pie DYE DIFFER hf eae { — a ™ DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY DIRECT DISCOVER DIsTANcE = 4. 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FOR Force FoRM FORWARD FREE FREQUENT FRIDAY FRIEND FROM FRONT “ FULL FULLY puree) FURTHER FUTURE cave GENERAL GENERALLY GENTLEMEN GET oirt GIVE GIVEN co GOLD Goop GOVERN GOVERNED GOVERNMENT GREAT GROUND Grow HAD HALF HAND HAPPEN Soom HAPPY HARD HAS (See AS) HAVE HE HEAD HEALTH _ HEAR HERE HEART K y> > HEAT HEAVY HEIR (See A/R) HELP HER HERE (See HEAR) HIGH HIM HIMSELF His (See 1S) HISTORY Re op HOLD HOLE (Seo WHOLE) HOME HOPE HORSE HoUR (See OUR) House How CN ST HOWEVER a = HUNDRED < \ we } aywre sat MANY a 1 hee | LAND ti | MARCH 1 IMMEDIATE ee | LANGUAGE MARK owiING IMPORTANT mw MARKET maporTances "| LARGE MARRY IMPOSSIBLE Last Mass IMPROVE Late = IMPROVED ees eee cage IMPROVE- —| AW: MATTER — ‘MENT LEAD —f}.., L. 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AO | peace OPERATE NEED wth orion az | AN NEITHER See. orrortuntty —S | orang NEVER N novewacn tk] on ee NEW onven y _ | Gee pLaimy NEW, o_ = | ORGANIZE PLANT news gneawizeo } ee |e | ORGANIZA- NEXT “TION ee. | PLEASE mont cri ~C__ | rueasune No POINT oucHT cow one , AME POLITICAL — mor our POOR wour bisa wont 2 POSITION OURSELVES meen nor POSSIBLE our - were POUND NOTHING over ia rows! NOVEMBER Owe (See O4 ene NEVER) be OWING (See Now ate... | LANGUAGE) ce mune own co | pmincirat NUMBERED aoaetge PRINCI al Nom | eso yo | ittty voseey PAINT son PRINCIPLE OBJECTED - - \ osseavation ..2.¥S2 | PAPER Z OCTOBER PART ~ “sy TICULAR = PA or : = M ovr ‘ vaatyPROFIT PROPERTY PROVIDE rustic PUBLISH } a PUBLISHED PULL PURPOSE PUT Quatity. QUARTER QUESTION quick QUITE RADIO RAIL RATE RATHER WRITER REACH READ READY REAL REALLY REASON RECEIVE RECENT RECORD RED REGARD REGRET REGULAR RELATE neanx muaneso } (See MOR. REMEMBER REME! MEMBER REPORT so} oN REPRE- SENTED REPRESENT } REQUIRE RESPECT RESPECTED RESPONSIBLE: RESPONSI- BILITy REST WREST RESULT RETURN RIGHT WRITE RIVER ROAD ROOM ROUND RULE RUN SAFE SAID SAIL SALE SAME SATISFAC- TORY SATURDAY SAVE SAY SCENE (See SEEN) SCHOOL SCIENCE SEA (Gee SEE) SECOND SEE SEA pe AL SEPTEMBER SERIOUS. SERVE SERVICE ser SEVERAL SEW (See SO) SHALL SHE SHILLING SHIP SHORT SHOULD. SHOW SIDE SIGN SIMPLE SINCE R sir SITUATION six size SMALL so sew } sow some sum SOMETIMES 300NsoRT SOUND SOUTH SOW (See SO) SPEAK SPECIAL SPECIALLY SPEND SPENT STAND START STATE STATION STEEL STEAL STEP STILL STONE STOP STORE story STRAIGHT STRANGE STREET STRONG SUBJECT SUBJECTED a SUCCESS sucH SUGGEST SUM (See SOME) SUMMER SUNDAY SUPPLY SUPPORT SURE SURPRISE SWEET a PAPERS A Beste 4 ne | apte | TALK | reace | reu. | rman THANK THANKED THAT THE THEIR THERE | THEM THEMSELVES THEN THERE (See THEIR) THEREFORE | rHese | ruey | THING THINK THIRD THis THOSE THOUGH THOUGHT THOUSAND, ‘THROUGH THURSDAY Tit rime ro TOGETHER | roLw wy b | G TOMGRROW Too Two ToucH TOWARD TRADE TOWN TRADE (See TOWARD) TRAIN | TRIED TROUBLE TRUE TRUST TRUTH TRY TUESDAY | TURN | Two (ee Too UNDER vsti up upon us use usuat } USUALLY VALUE very view voice | waist (See WasTe) Walk | wane | WAR | wane | Was Waste | watsWATCH NA WATER way (See WEIGH) we WEAK (See WEEK) WEATHER WEDNESDAY WEEK WEAK WEIGH way WELL WENT WERE WEST wat WHATEVER WHEN WHENEVER WHERE WHETHER AUPE RUAN TRS A WHICH wae waite wHo wnoer woe} wom WHOSE wry WIDE wre WINDow WINTER wire wise wish with WITHIN WITHOUT WOMAN WOMEN wonbeRFut wonpee- a FULLY 6 é vA “A a = yyhe worn work worRLD wort wouL WREST (See REST) WRITE (See RIGHT) WRITER (See RATHER) WRITING WRITTEN, WRONG. | var YEAR ves YESTERDAY YET you YouNG Your DERIVATIVE OUTLINES THESE DERIVATIVES, TOGETHER WITH THE ROOT WORDS, REPRESENT APPROXIMATELY 80 PER CENT OF THE WORDS CONTAINED IN ORDINARY ENGLISH MATTER ably N accounts accounting ucts ~ acting = action ~~ actions adds added adding addition additions additional advantages advertises advertise: } ments 8 lL b ' b U 4 t | | advertising afterwards afternoons against ages aged ageing 1 NL ot A 2 ~ — “a PAAAY 4 q é ji Lagrees agreed agreeing agreeable agreeably agreement agreements airplane airplanes airs heirs airy almost already althqugh always amongst amounts amounting animals announces announced announcing announce- ment announce- ments announcer announcers answers answered answering anybody anyone anything As SOLE i iG { Pa RASS PY wy VyAatn anywhere appears appeared appearing arms armed arming army armies arts asks asked asking attempts attempting authorities authoritative babies babyish backs backed backing backward backwards background badly banks" banked banking balances balanced ff \ Lf. 7 if ass or [mre (Vw oe ffs (4 for (¢ A & balancing bases based basing basic basis beautifuily became becomes beds been begins beginning began begun, believes beliefs believing bigger biggest blackness boards boarding bodies bodily books booked ” booking bigs } boyhood boyish VEO PLL (CYbrakes breaks ea branes} Nuc broke NS, broken SS: brings Sy bringing \ brothers Ny builds buildings } S buoys (See boys) burns NX... burned burnt was burning NZ... businesses a buys Se . buying Ne buyer MY buyers Sy oo calls “i called = calling oe cannot (See Section 12, p. 37) a Nv capitals capitalist x capitalists cares ae cared — caring faced = found Se. furtherance \y ; f =a facing al furthermore Ao & fires Sy S facts | fired \ sets 1. falls = firing sy getting = falling co fireplace “ Sy got i Sm. | frelaces = de rc. fallen Fe __ | fireside = . ana 1 families NO. | fishes Neo sites _o | fishing | Te a farms ee CQ siving farming om flies eo | ss = flying Se | ole — fathers Ke ew a. |" = fears ‘Ss - | follows F a a gol feared eon | followed = Noe ; OS ts fearing : = Following a Pounnus,| goods fearful 7 S —_ \__ | Boedness stm. fearfully oc . fists Dn fearfulness \ : ee & Bood-night nanny fearless wy ... | forced MS fearlessly sale forcing Sa governs fearlessness. Nn orm SE governing ts. \ feet formed bs ees spverunieg | feels : feeling a forming DS greatly \feelings SS | forwards greatness 13grounds Pos. | heavier ae | homely —o__| heaviest ol. , Brows nee heavily oi LO. a i ea, 0 proven Sr | heaviness dA oe. | Pe grown oR hoping growth wo Kenn, | HEIRS (See airs) hopeful - hopefully arow helps rm... : obi hopefulness &. hands helping ol, opis MNO handing wovomewnoee | Helped a hopelessly. Le. happens | elf X= | hopetesmest iN. happened WS _.. | helpfully wR hapsa Se | helpfulness Xe horses helpless LN re hours (See ours) happier “ACY | helplessly Nom | ourty happiest AF helplessness happily 6 houses hers happiness So? | herself housed a 5 | higher housing hardly A. | highest hundreds ight hardness. Ko... | highly hundredth highland heads . nr ; labouring. sew. | lifeless Ca a lifetime ON ° . land ils interests anes eo | lives as : landing . interested ee lights c interesting languages a= | thing S irons largest i “ tly, ~ a 7 ironed act PP lighter st lasts = Troning lasting Ea | tikes sa is liked a “ ssues lately ou ae. Se ig cS ikinj ars issued later Le... | Hine —t issuing likely esi laws fb ~ | likeness a o. us lawful Os awful oP judges lawless Cena | limits Co - judged fimiting ny a judging me A | ints . A judgment ~ leading “Ae a leader woe | Hines ost judgments A 2 leaders won fooee | med os keeps led A. | tining C keeping ; x fists ae learns = kept lives fhe learned OM eed om kinds Jearnt elect | Ub of 68H inarning .N iving Pees alongs longed longing longhand looks looked looking losses lost loves loved loving lovingly lovely lower lowest lowly machines maids makes making maker makers, mankind men manufactures - 1 mB os ~ f= as - Ce. CX... wl. (Be ar = wa 2 a —~, manufacturing N. manufacturer manufacturers marks marked marking << ~—S_ ~| markets marketing marketable marries married marrying masses massed massing masters is mastering « masterpiece masterpieces matters material materials materially meals wise means en meaning aa meant a = measures se) measured a measuring JZ. meats meets IB nn meeting meetings ele met members (See remembers) memories “mow 16 merely methods miles mileage 7 milkman peo milkmen millions minds minding mines mining minutes misses missed missing moments ...... | poorly Ny _. | purposely ZK personally 2Yes,---- | positions Np. | puts ng personality ae | putting wee persons | ne =~ qualities pictures Siccsseas! pOUnde, pounding recon | quarters se places So quartered ge placed eSB | powers Neg | quarry oy placing Nau... | powerful : SS ‘ powerfully “Xo Gene | questions — fh... Lee S powerless oS 1. | questioned St questioning =~ “die tare S| presents nba. planned S| presenting dane. | auickly planning Ne... | presently Sa quicker iia quickest lanai plants wl prices Se quicken Comes planting a priced Ss quickens a * 18quickening radios rarlway railways rates rated rating rateable reaches reached reaching reads reading reader readers read readily ready-made reasoned reasons reasonable reasonably reasoning receives received receiving recently records, recording regards regarding regardless SYS SR POP DP ee paaac a BA Aaa Se a] regrets regretted regretting regrettable regrettably regularly relates relating relation relations remarks remarkable remarkably remembers members remembering reports reporting represents representing representation representative representatives requires required requiring requirement requirements respects respecting respectful respectfully rests wrests 19 >>> eo ze 2 aNYSAAADSS S Op? >> pdood resting wresting restfulness restlessness results resulting returns returned returning rights writes rightly rivers roads roadman roadmen rooms rounds rounding roundly rules ruled ruling runs running ran safely safest safety sails sales sailing sailed BAK rs SAV ASA \ss As g vp AA RSP AN ASSsailor sailors” satisfactorily saves saved saving saying says scenes schools schooling schooled school-book school-books school-days sciences seas (See sees) seconds seconding secondly secondary sees seas seeing saw seems seemed seemly sells cells selling seller sellers sad yet ht ete Cre SDD AA ve DD Pd selves sends sending sensed senses senseless sensing seriously seriousness serves served serving services sets setting sews sows shillings ships shipped shipping shipment... A shipments co shipbuilding Lv Tet shipyard shipyards ~~ shortest shortly shorthand shows showed KR es showing 20 AAT TPR MME E MBE LEP shown showroom showrooms sides siding signs signed signing simpler simplest simply simplicity sirs sits sitting sat situations sixty sized sizes sizing smaller smallest somehow something somewhere sorts sorting sounds sounding south-westSOWS (See sews) speaks speaking spends spending stands standing starts starting stated stating states statesman statesmen statement statements stations stating stealing steels steals steps stepped stepping stones stony stops stopped stopping stores stored storing Jas Ae? & Xe a £ 0. f a & be ~—_ Pees 2 Pe Perr stories straightfor- ward strangest strangely streets strongly subjects successes ‘successful successfully suggests suggesting suggestion sums summed summing summers supplies supplied supplying supports supporting surely surprises surprised surprising sweetly sweetest systems N becrere & ef rep b ieee thankfulness yow (76 tables takes taking taken took talks talking talked taxes taxed taxing taxation teaches teaching teacher teachers tells telling tests testing thanks thanking thankful thankless “ thanklessness things thinks thinking thirds thoughts thoughtfulthoughtfully thoughtful- ness thoughtless- ness thousands thousandth throughout times. today touches touched touching towards. (See trodes) towns trading trades towards } tradesman tradesmen trains training trained troubles troubled troubling troublesome uly trusts trusting, tries trying Pree 36° nN VVer~H J 4 oo ‘ de qe L : tet : 4 Ke 4 1 i a turns turned turning underground understand understands understand- ing undertake undertaken undertakes undertaking undertakings undertook upward upwards upper uses used using useful usefully usefulness useless uselessly uselessness values valued valuing valuable valueless views viewed viewing 22 sth ut § Ss revit re se voices \o voiced S voicing ewe waists (See wastes) wait (See weight) waits (See weights) waiting walks walking walked walker walkers wants wanting PSS Jats X wars ‘ warlike warmest vy warmly warmth wastes waists ~ wasting watches watched AMA \s ae watching watchful Ag watchfulness .“XZ,, wi Zh watered Sy watering | vary thways (See weighs) wayside weakly (See weekly) weakness week-end week-ends weeks weekly weakly weighed weighing weighs ways weight wait weights waits well-being well-known wells whereas wherein whereupon whilst whiteness wholesale wholly widest wider widely widen widened widens widening | willing willingly willingness windows winters wintering wires wiring wired wireless wisely wishes wished wishing words works worked working so ec =. worker - workers ee. workman. Newer workmen ues. worlds Aa worthless LL... worthlessness Aye. wrests (See rests) AA ~ Q wresting (See resting) 1} writers wrongs wronged wronging AAS wrongly wrong-doing \4 wrote Rue a | yards years aatly yearly ype yourself ok. yourselves Me. “an 23PHRASES The phrases used in the shorthand pages of this book have been formed in accordance with the following rules— A. Phrases may be formed by the joining together of two or more of the outlines appearing in the list of the 700 most frequently used shorthand outlines, or derivatives of these outlines, as: bo. it is, wy to turn, B. Special phrases are used to represent very common word groups, and sixteen points for the formation of such phrases are listed below— lu IIS NOL, Nego PYOU, Kopoonn If YOU CAN, XK... 10 OUr, ete. 1. THE: represented by a small tick, written either upwards or downwards at a sharp angle: “7 in the, % . with the, “+. for the, .7.. and vik ihe,“ bn the, ,. pay the, .L,. take the, ete 2a represented by writing the first part of the sign only: Sox.. Lean, .. Lam, .X.. I believe, %?.. Twant, 7. I went, <.. Lagree. we is BS represented medially or finally by a short downstroke: i that he may, Sy for he, he if he, 4 when he. 4, MUCH: represented by strokes m and ch: cu Aad much, Sm. too much, dey. so much very much. Py 4 5. WILL: represented by upward: “... Iwill, of. you will, (C.. they will, WO. it will, 9c. he will. 6. US: represented by circle s; Se. to us, Se for us, dene. 10 give US. 247. S-W, S-S: 8. WERE: 9. ARE 10. BEEN, THAN, OWN, 11. HAVE, OF: 12. NOT, TO: 13. MUST: 14. CON: represented by large circle: & as well as, RQ. as we have, ete.; 6... this is, 2... as is, 4, Qe Qui. IS AS, coven QS SOON AS. “ represented by strokes w and ray: oA“... we were, % they were; ar. a you were. represented by initial hook r- ) they are. represented by final hook n: .\s.. have been, J had been, 4 better than, <.~ more than, Lo rather than, .2. our own, 2 their own. represented by final hook f/v...... which have, be who haves}... Out of, Sy. number of, LA. rate of. represented by halving and by hook 27.2... J am not, X... Pwill not, 2... Peannot, 4. 1 do not, A. Fdid not, 2... nad not, «. we will not, “<= we cannot, 3. we do not, L3- we did not, 2. you will not, oy. you cannot, Dd. were not; ae may not be; S.... able to. represented by stroke m and circle s: ae, Wht be, sein THUS not be. represented by writing the outline close to the preceding outline: —, in connection, —Y. in control, 4, in consideration, «4. we consider, {we continue, (nis company, G this committee, V8... 1 will comfort, w— it is «common, ~{,. in condition, etc. 2515. THEIR, THERE, represented by doubling the stroke preceding OTHER: these words: "7... in their, fp: Tr am sure there is, .-—. some other. 16. HUNDRED, represented by strokes n, th, and m respectively THOUSAND, 4. one hundred, 2. two hundred; (one MILLION: thousand, 2 two thousand, By tro hundred thousand; .,1... one million, .2.. two million. C. Phrases shown under B may be joined, where convenient, to other outlines: “agree, 3. Lagree that the; it wilt, KN it will be; Xs havebeen, Xs we have been; 4 1do not, é las not think; a must be, Lo» it must be. These rules cover most phrases ordinarily required by the short- hand writer in general work. Further phrases are taught in the textbooks and in The New Phonographic Phrase Book. In addition, lists of phrases for use in the reporting of specialized matter are available should students require them at a later stage of their study