. Business shorthand;. es in spelling take up the simple, fully written wordsin the shorthand part of the Lessons and spell (pronounce)them as directed above, seeing and associating together thesounds and the letters which represent them. The process isso simple that a very little practice will enable you to spellcorrectly any word you can pronounce correctly. Pay no at-tention to the letters used in spelling the words in the ordin-ary dictionary spellings; in them the letters are used in so ca-pricious and disorderly a way that no dependence can be placedupon them as a guide to pronunciation.
. Business shorthand;. es in spelling take up the simple, fully written wordsin the shorthand part of the Lessons and spell (pronounce)them as directed above, seeing and associating together thesounds and the letters which represent them. The process isso simple that a very little practice will enable you to spellcorrectly any word you can pronounce correctly. Pay no at-tention to the letters used in spelling the words in the ordin-ary dictionary spellings; in them the letters are used in so ca-pricious and disorderly a way that no dependence can be placedupon them as a guide to pronunciation. Having in this sim-ple, easy and natural way arrived at the sounds in a word, youwill find in the Alf abet an appropriate letter to represent eachof these plainly spoken, easily recognized, elementary in their proper order, as spelled, the letters representing a Jo ^ - 1(> 3^ ) ^ «c c 1 s. l^ > ~7 4L- L_ ^ ?k k 1 y 1 1 ,j i ^ ^ — __ U U Ly >w ^ v ~> ^ V k ^1 ^7 -7 <-1 z7 *1 V 0, //. /v «. U 1^ 20 BUSINESS SHOBTHAND. these sounds, already learned from the Alfabet, and the writ-ing- is done according to the principles of the simple, fully writ-ten style of the system. This is the style of the art from whichchildren and others can most readily learn the fonetic analy-sis and synthesis of the language, and acquire a correct pro-nunciation of words, a most important educational accom-plishment. The reading consists simply in speaking morequickly than in spelling, the sounds as you see them picturedby the letters in the written word. If the word is fully andproperly written, the letters are a sure guide to a correctpronunciation. Thus it will be seen that the two great difficulties in the wayof an easy and rapid acquisition of the English language—thecorrect spelling and pronunciation of words—are entirely overcome, the time and labor necessary to devote to both are re-duced to a minimum, and the whole process put in so simple aform that a child ca
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