Issac Pitman
'The student must remember that when he is writing shorthand he is to write strictly according to SOUND, leaving out all silent letters. In other words, the spelling in Isaac Pitman Shorthand is phonetic, the ordinary spelling being entirely discharged, and the sounds of the words only being represented by the shorthand characters employed.'-So begins ’Course in Isaac Pitman Shorthand’, a classic manual on the practice of shorthand.
