Cricket’s Shorthand Site

Finally! All in one place and with human-readable URLs.

Still a work in progress. Plans will probably change.

Comments and corrections are more than welcome.

Cricket’s Shorthand Course

Course

A series of steps for learning shorthand, especially if you don’t have a teacher to guide you.

Course Extras

Mostly long quotes and details from other books that are useful but also distracting.

Course Summary – Not Started

Because the first one, with all the reasons and references, is too long.

Tips - Deprecated

A collection of tips I’ve accumulated over the years. Replaced by Cricket’s Shorthand Course.

Swem’s Systematic Speed Course

Start this after you reach 80wpm for 5 minutes on unseen material. Cricket’s Course has instructions for a modified version starting at 60wpm for 1 minute.

Orthic Consolidated

Reference

Being an Improved and Expanded Consolidation of Various Books with Clarifications, Additions, Warnings and Opinions of the Author and Others who Might Comment

The four Orthic books were written by three different authors on two continents. Instead of issuing a revised manual, books 2 and 3 (Supplement and Teaching) only show changes to the system. They move rules around, add some, and change others. The 4th (Revised), written many years later, is the complete system but has some significant differences.

This page combines all the rules from all the books, except Reporting Style. It is not intended as an introduction to Orthic. The Manual or Revised is best for that. (I recommend the Manual. Anything Revised does differently just feels wrong to anyone who started with the Manual.) (Some of the more useful Reporting rules are included.)

Hopefully it creates more clarity than confusion.

Study Lists – Not Started

Lists of words by rule, created as Cricket needs them.

Words from Examples

All the words used as examples and in longer passages. Includes Aesop’s Fables and Dufferin’s Speech , but not Psalms or New Testament. Useful to look up examples.

Orthic Consolidated Reverse Rules – Not Started

Rules sorted by Orthic spelling.

Orthic Reading Material

No promises about accuracy. Let me know if you find a mistake and I’ll fix it or at least note it.

Papers and Word Lists

Future Project. Word lists nicely formatted with room for shorthand, to make a dictionary, and some with Orthic.

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