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[Kerby Reynolds]

Sinceretiring from her legal career in 2016 and after attending a class at the Boca Raton Museum of Art School in 2017, Mandell has embraced a later-in-life art career. Using Gregg shorthand, a rapid pen stenography system dating to the late 19th century, she has created multifaceted paintings and sculpture from texts, poetry and Hebrew prayers, using inspirational phrases that juxtapose color, texture, design and meaning (staceymandell.com).

I have wanted to write for a living ever since I learned my ABCs. But little did I know that I would have to relearn the alphabet as part of my quest to become a journalist. Since most U.K. news outlets oblige reporters to have an NCTJ shorthand qualification, I was taught Teeline shorthand as part of my diploma at the London-based journalism school News Associates.

Once we had the basic building blocks down, we practiced writing alongside exam passages at the talking speed of 60-words-per-minute. But writing outlines is only half the battle with shorthand; you need to be able to read what you wrote to transcribe shorthand back to longhand (ordinary handwriting)! Practicing shorthand was very different to my experiences practicing French at secondary school. Since it is such a technical language and relies on drilling for speed development, it was a pressurized learning environment focused around passing exams from the very first day. My secondary school French lessons had been laidback sociable affairs where we watched Friends with subtitles and completed word searches at a leisurely pace.

As an adult learner with more developed study skills, learning shorthand was less frustrating than trying to wrap my head around French verb conjugations as a teenager. Still, there was a lot of social pressure to progress at a certain rate each week and eventually obtain the industry standard. My classmates were my competition: I would be pitted against them for work in the future and so there was definitely a sense of rivalry in our lessons, which felt very different from the more supportive classical language classroom. But this competitive atmosphere was also a useful motivator.

Perhaps sensing our waning enthusiasm, our tutor Emily got us to compete with one another to see who could transcribe a passage with the fewest errors. Each week an atmosphere of intense concentration would fall over us all as Emily hit play on the exam passage. We furiously scribbled, and then we were given time after the recording finished to transcribe our shorthand back into longhand. We would all stand up and read one word of our transcription, with anyone who missed a word or got a word wrong forced to sit down. It was a case of the last person standing; I frequently found myself in the final three, only to be foiled by an unintelligible scribble at the last moment.

As I was a commuting student, the bulk of my shorthand practice took place on public transport. I got lots of strange looks from people I was sitting next to or opposite on the train; one gentleman asked if I was writing Arabic. Another elderly lady switched seats once she saw me scribbling away, perhaps concerned for my sanity!

Undeterred by the strangers who gave me quizzical looks, eventually my muscle memory improved and I got faster and faster. I started listening to 70-, 80- and 90-words-per-minute exam passages, gearing up to take the 100-words-per-minute exam. I passed the exam on my second attempt, but for many others it takes more effort to obtain the coveted industry gold-standard NCTJ qualification: the pass rate for the 100-words-per-minute exam in the 2018-19 period was just 24 percent, out of 1,378 sittings.

Passing the 100-words-per-minute exam is particularly important if you want to be a local news reporter as you will be expected to cover courts, where recording devices are not allowed. It takes many trainee journalists multiple attempts to pass their shorthand exams, but those who end up working in local news find it is worth the struggle.

Now that I have passed the exam I try to keep up to speed by jotting down lyrics from my favorite songs or excerpts from podcasts in shorthand. I also practice outlines when watching television, the same way that people watch other language cinema to develop their language skills.

Beth Kirkbride is a gold-standard NCTJ-accredited freelance journalist with bylines in Metro, Cosmopolitan, The Telegraph and others. She graduated with an English Language and Literature degree from the University of Oxford in 2018, and she's currently based in Sheffield, England.

With the fast pace of the business world today, everyone would benefit from the ability to take shorthand notes. For the Assistant, however, shorthand is a must. Whether working for an accountant or a zoologist, an Assistant has to be prepared to listen to, to record and act upon an enormous amount of information daily. What office skill could make this task easier than shorthand?

You are so right, Renee. I am 67, still working in a busy environment because of my shorthand skill. In fact, it is shorthand knowledge that clinched most of my jobs; I was offered my current post when I was 65 and it is with a local Council. I achieved 140 wpm when I was 19 and have kept it up, practising from my 53 year old text books a few times a month! Good luck.

I like how you said that someone who can write shorthand knows how to make logical and rational thought to what is said. This would be really helpful in anything that requires lots of information to be written down in a short amount of time. That way you can simply decipher what was written and you have access to everything that was said.

I am happy to read this write-up about shourthand online because my people around me beliefs that shorthand is outdated. I am confirming it that senior secondary schools in Nigeria are no more teaching shorthand at their various school while shorthand are still part of junior school curriculum in Business Studies. No continuity after that junior school experience.

I am happy that I was able to read a very informative article on shorthand because all my life I have been a shorthand and Typewriting teacher and now in this modern world I am hearing all sorts of negative remarks about typewriting and shorthand. Many feel shorthand has phased out of the office world. They also believe that it do not belong to this world of technology but after reading this article it builds my confidence in shorthand once again. Thanks for this article.

Dainess Danga,

I recommend Gregg Shorthand. There are Gregg Shorthand books on EBay.

I think Anniversary Edition is good. It is a burgundy-ish red book, and I believe it is published in the 1940s.

There is also a Gregg Shorthand website with the book contents on

There is also a board of shorthand enthusiasts at

Hope this helps!

I recommend Gregg Shorthand. There are Gregg Shorthand books on EBay.

I think Anniversary Edition is good. It is a burgundy-ish red book, and I believe it is published in the 1940s.

There is also a Gregg Shorthand website with the book contents on

I worked as an executive secretary and then an office manager for 22 years, and I will say that shorthand will never be replaced. A skilled person who knows shorthand and can grind out the work will always have a job. Shorthand is a tremendous time (and money) saver. Employers are always impressed by a person who can write the words quickly and get the job done.

DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEA WHERE I COULD GET HOLD OF SOME PITMAN 2000 TEXT BOOKS? i HAVE KEPT UP AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, BUT WISH I HAD NEVER DISPOSED OF MY OLD BOOKS. i KNOW WE ALL DEVELOP OUR OWN VERSION OF THE PARTICULAR SHORTHAND VERSION WE ARE TAUGHT, HOWEVER TO GO BACK AND GET THE THEORY SPOT ONE ONCE AGAIN WOULD BE AN ACHIEVEMENT AND AN ENJOYABLE ONE AT THAT. I REALLY ENJOYED SHORTHAND, MORE THAN TYPING!!!

This time capsule is from a 1971 New York Times article about the retirement of Betsy Talbot Blackwell (one of those names that seems to go everywhere in a pearl necklace), editor in chief at the magazine Mademoiselle:

I entered the contest thinking that working in New York at a big magazine would bring me a lot more money. Instead, I came back in debt with bills to pay for the clothes I purchased and the airfare I borrowed for the trip.

You may already be familiar with some of the principles mentioned below, but they are worth a review. Being familiar with this concepts will help you write optimized CSS code and make you a better all-around web designer.

Those are just two examples of shorthand, but by no means should be considered a comprehensive guide. Even if you are familiar with the rules above, be sure to look at the articles mentioned below for more helpful reminders of those powerful properties that help keep your code succinct. Because of the number of lines and characters saved, going from a previous version of a CSS file which used no shorthand properties to one that makes full use of shorthand can have dramatic effect on file size.

But now we know that using conditional comments to serve hacks correctional declarations for IE6 and IE7 is an accepted practice, even recommended by the Microsoft IE development team. Using conditional comments to serve IE-specific CSS rules has the added benefit of serving a cleaner, and therefore smaller, default CSS file to more standards-compliant browsers, while only those browsers that need the hackery daiquri (i.e. IE) will download the additional page weight.

Whitespace, including spaces, tabs, and extra line breaks, is important for readability for CSS code. However, whitespace does add, however miniscule it may be, to page weight. Every space, line-break, and tab you can eliminate is like having one less character.

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