Excerpt from Boyd's Syllabic Shorthand: An Instructor and Dictionary; A System of Shorthand in Which Characters Represent Syllables, Thereby Greatly Simplifying the Science, This System Can Be Learned in One-Fourth of the Time Required for Other SystemsIt is therefore with a feeling of profound gratification that the writer of these lines presents the present work to the public, a gratification which he feels he can justifiably allude to here, in as much as his part in the preparation of this work has been that of publisher only. It might be added, a publisher who is a zealous believer in, and writer of the system herein treated. This book is a treatise on shorthand, but it treats of a new kind of shorthand.The Syllabic System of Shorthand is based on principles radically different from those of any other shorthand system ever hitherto devised. Those principles, however, are so simple, so natural, so seemingly obvious in their possibilities, that it seems utterly inexplicable why they have not long since been seized upon by seekers after simplification and improve ment in shorthand methods. We cannot, in other words, understand how it is that the syllabic principle should not have been previously thought of by shorthand investigators. Possibly it had been thought of, but its possibilities and ad vantages not fully perceived. This is not a point, however, which we need follow further here.

The 'most important fact for us now is that the Syllabic principle has become the keystone of a system which is revolutionizing short hand writing, and will ultimately replace all other systems at present used.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.