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Country codes; e.g., "Switzerland" can indicate the letters CH; ICAO spelling alphabet: where Mike signifies M and Romeo R; Conventional abbreviations for US cities and states: for example, "New York" can indicate NY and "California" CA or CAL. The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example:
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A Declaration Concerning the newly invented Art of Double Writing was a pamphlet of 6 leaves, written by Sir William Petty (1623–1687) and first published in 1648. It contained information regarding his invention of the "Art of Double Writing", especially a claim for patent rights.
The Advice to Hartlib was a treatise on education, written by Sir William Petty (1623–1687) in 1647 as a letter to Samuel Hartlib. [1] and published in 1647/8. [2]It was the first printed work by Petty and covers a total of 31 pages.
Small caps, petite caps and italic used for emphasis True small caps (top), compared with scaled small caps (bottom), generated by OpenOffice.org Writer. In typography, small caps (short for small capitals) are characters typeset with glyphs that resemble uppercase letters but reduced in height and weight close to the surrounding lowercase letters or text figures. [1]
Sample of text from A Christmas Carol, published in Gregg shorthand, 1918. Many of the letters shown are also brief forms, or standard abbreviations for the most common words for increased speed in writing. [12] For instance, instead of writing kan for "can", the Gregg stenographer just writes k. [4] These brief forms are shown on the adjacent ...
These systems used normally written letters of the alphabet, but also some number of symbols, alphabetic characters changed in shape or position, or special marks for punctuation and so they are more accurately described as hybrid shorthand systems. In contrast, Personal Shorthand uses only the 26 letters of the alphabet, without any special ...
Lansdowne became a pariah and his letter "a deed of shame". [3] Bonar Law publicly criticised Lansdowne's letter, although U.S. President Woodrow Wilson was said to be "impressed" by the letter's arguments. H. G. Wells said Lansdowne's letter "was the letter of a Peer who fears revolution more than national dishonour". [5]