Shorthand

Shorthand is like learning a new language. It feels a bit like the world has taken away everything I have learnt over the past 19 years and gone...here's a book, time to start again. 

I have learnt my Shorthand Alphabet and am currently trying to memorise 'common words represented by letters of the alphabet.  

I have been pacing around my house; lying on the sofa; doing roly polys onto my bed, all because I keep forgetting what the common words for the letters L, P and Q are. 

I really want to watch 'New Girl' from last night but then I think of the 'dream' career that could come from knowing shorthand so shorthand it is.

If I were my dog, I would definitely think that I had gone mad...maybe I have...

A is able, able to, ability and after

B is be and been

C is once and offence

D is do and day

E is electric 

The e with two lines underneath is England...the two lines indicating a capital letter.

Then there is another adaptation of the shorthand 'e' which means every and ever

F is from

G is go and gentleman 

H is he 

I is I and eye

There isn't one for J. Poor J.

K is kind, like and knowledge

L is local and letter 

M is me

BUT the shorthand for m under the line means Time...I know I don't understand it either...I'm just going with it and not thinking too much about it.

N is and

N below the line is begin, begun and began

O is of

P is pence, page and police

Q is question and equal

R is are

S is south and southern

T is to

U is you

This is as far as I have got this afternoon. 

I have to go and make sure my dog doesn't think I'm crazy now.

emily