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Encyclopedia > James Pitman

Sir James Pitman (the grandson of Sir Isaac Pitman) inventor of the Initial Teaching Alphabet. Categories: Stub ... The Initial Teaching Alphabet was developed by Sir James Pitman (the grandson of Sir Isaac Pitman, the inventor of a system of shorthand, who himself took up the issue of spelling reform with a variant typeface) as a tool for teaching children to read. ...


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Shavian Alphabet - James Pitman's Introduction to Shaw's Alphabet (934 words)
Shavian Alphabet - James Pitman's Introduction to Shaw's Alphabet
Many of the characters easily join into pairs and trios to form syllables which recur frequently in English words; the sounds of the language are completely characterized, thus permitting abbreviation with great reliability.
Although this means starting from scratch, remember that Isaac Pitman, whose shorthand Shaw used for all his writings, also did so with a system offering the same advantages as Shaw's alphabet: that is, the saving of time, effort, and money.
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