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    Electronic Shorthand Dictonary
    Electronic Shorthand Dictonary
    Electronic Shorthand Dictonary
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    Electronic Shorthand Dictonary

    By Michelle Campbell-Scott

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    Need ideas for your digital note-taking abbreviations? Here are over 6,000 of them!

    Make Electronic Shorthand even more fun & useful with the official Electronic Shorthand Dictionary.
    You'll find suggestions for abbreviations that have worked for other users of Electronic Shorthand from all walks of life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichelle Campbell-Scott
    Release dateApr 24, 2021
    Electronic Shorthand Dictonary
    Author

    Michelle Campbell-Scott

    Michelle goes under a number of names: Michelle Booth, Michelle Campbell-Scott, and Mia Campbell. She was born in a Liverpool (UK) hospital to a book-mad mother and a bemused father. One of her earliest memories is of her mum sitting on the floor reading, with a vacuum cleaner next to her. She had spotted an interesting book while cleaning, picked it up and got engrossed!She also remembers her dad stepping over a pile of books and saying, "If you love them so much, why don't you try writing one?"She did. And hasn't stopped since.She is a former teacher who left teaching in the summer of 2012 to pursue her dream of writing full-time. Now she works from home the dogs are a lot happier.

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      Book preview

      Electronic Shorthand Dictonary - Michelle Campbell-Scott

      ELECTRONIC SHORTHAND DICTIONARY

      Michelle Campbell-Scott

      Smashwords edition

      Copyright © 2021 Michelle Campbell-Scott

      Coo Farm Press

      Electronic Shorthand Dictionary

      US edition. First edition April 2021

      All rights reserved. Although the author and publisher have made every effort to ensure that the information in this book was correct at time of going to press, the author and publisher do not assume and hereby disclaim any liability to any party for any loss, damage, or disruption caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident, or any other cause.

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your enjoyment only, then please return to Smashwords.com or your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This dictionary is suitable for you if …

      You have read/studied the Electronic Shorthand book and/or course online or in workshops.

      This dictionary is not suitable for you if …

      You have not read the book or studied the course and don’t want to! It won’t make sense if you don’t understand the rules of Electronic Shorthand and how to implement them.

      ~

      This dictionary is a collection of commonly-used words and phrases and suggestions of Electronic Shorthand abbreviations for them.

      Please bear in mind that different accents and ways of speaking can affect how people use Electronic Shorthand. If any abbreviations don't make sense to you, do change them to ones that sound and feel better for your way of speaking and thinking. You will be much more likely to remember and use them. There are pages for notes at the end of the book for your own abbreviations.

      Electronic Shorthand fans from Australia, Canada, the UK, and US have contributed abbreviations for this dictionary. If you spot some slang you don't recognize, it's probably from a different country! Many thanks to all involved.

      We have used US spellings as US English more phonetic. Apologies to those who miss the spellings from their own country. Most of the time, they are silent and don't alter the abbreviation. Country-specific dictionaries may be possible in the future if we get enough contributions.

      Please email the publisher if you would like to be involved.

      admin@coofarmpress.net

      For everyone who loves to take copious notes

      ~ CONTENTS ~

      Introduction

      Adding ES Abbreviations To Software

      A

      B

      C

      D

      E

      F

      G

      H

      I

      J

      K

      L

      M

      N

      O

      P

      Q

      R

      S

      T

      U

      V

      W

      X

      Y

      Z

      ~ INTRODUCTION ~

      THIS DICTIONARY IS based on the book and course ‘Electronic Shorthand’ by Michelle Campbell-Scott. It was compiled to support electronic shorthand users in the study and the development of their personal shorthand abbreviations, by providing suggestions they can adapt to their own needs.

      Electronic Shorthand [ES] is a system Michelle came up with after realizing there was a big need for it. She had taught traditional shorthand - the kind done with pencil (not even pen!) and paper. Her students complained about shorthand taking such a long time to learn (around a year) and being completely incompatible with electronic devices. Those old-fashioned squiggles and dashes simply don't transfer to modern keyboards.

      Michelle was approached by several people who were desperate to find an easy-to-use system that worked on computers and devices, as that is what is used in most modern workplaces and places of study. People were under a lot of stress caused by needing to be able to take notes on an electronic device and not being able to effectively. Some had tried to use text or their own combination of abbreviations and found that they were unable to understand their notes when they went back to them.

      After coming up with an emergency system for one lady who was about to have a breakdown due to job pressure - and it helping - Michelle further developed her system into a set of easy, quick rules. She began teaching it locally in the UK alongside other forms of shorthand and speedwriting. When ES became more popular than the pencil/pen and paper methods, she realized it was needed by a wider audience. Now, ES is used around the world and not only in English-speaking countries, as it can be adapted to many other languages.

      The abbreviations in this book were compiled by the author with the help of ES students past and present, based on their everyday note-taking in various settings. The dictionary has been in development for several years. It is based on the most commonly-used English words from the US, Canada, UK, & Australia. It could have been much longer but would have taken several more years and people were getting tired of waiting! It is designed to support people both in their study of ES and in the development of their personal shorthand abbreviations.

      ES is adaptable and dynamic - there is no right or wrong way of writing and using it. This dictionary is not prescriptive but provides suggestions of possible abbreviations that have been successfully used by others.

      The abbreviations given are therefore just the starting point. For example, many people used to abbreviate 'achievement' as 'achmnt' until someone mentioned that they used 'acht' and never got it confused with another word. So a new abbreviation was born and adopted by others! You may come up with your own - especially for words you use frequently.

      Refer back to the ES book or course for the four rules on how to use ES. Also, remember these points:

      If in doubt, sound it out. If you read one of your abbreviations and can't remember what the full word should be, speak it out loud if you can. Often it will be obvious what it represents then.

      The longer the word or phrase, the more letters you can safely leave out– especially towards the end of the word.

      In a 'live' situation (eg a lecture or webinar), when typing out new or unfamiliar words, spell them out in the full in the first instance, then abbreviate them in brackets next to the word. For example: The buildings in Pompeii [Pomp] were .... Then you can use the new abbreviation for every other instance without fear of misunderstanding when reading back. Many times, just a capital letter will do.

      Words with two consonants: one will often do, unless that would confuse the abbreviation for another word. As always, sound it out to be sure.

      It's a good idea to make a note of your own abbreviations so you will use and remember them consistently. Blank pages are included at the end of the book for this purpose. You could also jot them down in notes software such as iOS notes, Evernote, OneNote, Notation, etc., so you can access them wherever you are.

      If you use a device or program frequently, you could add your abbreviations to that for even faster notetaking. There are brief instructions for some of the most popular choices on the next page.

      ADDING ES ABBREVIATIONS TO SOFTWARE

      Adding ES abbreviations to your notetaking software's dictionary means that your notes will automatically correct to their full equivalents after you type them. This saves a lot of time and allows you to take

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