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A57289	Ridpath, George, d. 1726.	Short-hand yet shorter: or, The art of short-writing advanced in a more swift, easie, regular, and natural method than hitherto Whereby the former difficulties in placing the vowels are removed; they, the dipthongs and consonants, further contracted; the particles, pronouns, degrees of comparison, persons, moods, tenses, contrarieties, repetitions, sentences negative and interrogatory, are shortned. The rules are plain, easie to be remembred and applied to any other short-hand, that such as have learned other authors may have hence a very considerable help to write more swiftly without altering their foundation. By George Ridpath.	1687		.xml	application/xml	11017	714	83	6. I have given you such Rules for exchanging Letters of like sound , by which one may often serve for two or three , and such a plain Table of Syllables for beginning and ending of words as hath more dependance upon the Alphabet than any yet extant . I desire the Ingenuous Reader before he gives his Censure of the Work , to consider well the constant use there will be of the above-mentioned Rules for shortning and leaving out of words which are so common in all Discourses , and in the next place to consider the natural Method in which they are laid down , so as they may be quickly learned , and not burdensome to the Memory to retain ; and I doubt not but he will easily be perswaded , that besides the removal of former Difficulties , there is a very considerable Essay made here towards the Improvement , if not Perfection , of Short-hand .	cache/A57289.xml	txt/A57289.txt
