12 Facts About Pitman shorthand

Pitman shorthand is a system of shorthand for the English language developed by Englishman Sir Isaac Pitman, who first presented it in 1837.

The Pitman shorthand was converted into words during the trip back to Chicago, where typesetters and telegraphers awaited them.

Pitman shorthand was the most popular shorthand system used in the United Kingdom and the second most popular in the United States.

Pitman shorthand uses straight strokes and quarter-circle strokes, in various orientations, to represent consonant sounds.

The original Pitman's shorthand had an "alphabet" of consonants, which was later modified.

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Pitman shorthand 2000 introduced some simplifications and drastically reduced the list of abbreviations to reduce the memory load, officially reduced to a list of 144 short forms.

Pitman shorthand had used Samuel Taylor's system for seven years, but his symbols bear greater similarity to the older Byrom system.

The first phonetician to invent a system of shorthand, Pitman used similar-looking symbols for phonetically related sounds.

Pitman shorthand was the first to use thickness of a stroke to indicate voicing, and consonants with similar place of articulation were oriented in similar directions, with straight lines for plosives and arcs for fricatives.

At one time, Pitman was the most commonly used shorthand system in the entire English-speaking world.

Consonants in Pitman's shorthand are pronounced bee, pee, dee, tee, jay, chay, gay, kay, vee, eff, thee, ith, zee, ess, zhee, ish, em, el, en, ray ar, ing, way, yay, and hay.

Protagonist of David R Palmer's novels Emergence and Tracking purportedly writes her journals in Pitman Shorthand, declaring it the "best, potentially fastest, most versatile of various pen systems".