longhand
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long·hand
/ ˈlôngˌhand; ˈläng-/
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n.
ordinary handwriting (as opposed to shorthand, typing, or printing):
he wrote out the reply in longhand |
[as adj.]
a longhand draft.
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SHORTHAND
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...amp; for and and etc. for etcetera in longhand. In 1837, in England, Isaac PITMAN launched...characters are based on elements of ordinary longhand, vowels are shown by circles and hooks...speed. Systems developed in the 20c use longhand symbols for most or all letters, and...
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Gaines, Ernest J. 1933 –
Book article from: Contemporary Black Biography
...novel and send it to New York and get it published, ” Ernest J. Gaines told Publishers Weekly . Beginning the novel in longhand, Gaines later gained access to a typewriter, which had been rented for him by his mother. Using one finger to type the manuscript...
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Podyachy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...podyachy so spravoy ) clerks were elite senior clerks. Clerk novitiates between ages ten and fifteen learned skoropis (cursive longhand) and documentary formulae, and acquired office sense; many were washed out. During the 1600s, the number of clerks working...
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Bail, Murray
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...edited by Edward Leeson. London, Macmillan, 1981; New York, St. Martin's Press, 1982. Other Ian Fairweather. Sydney, Bay, 1981. Longhand: A Writer's Notebook. Fitzroy, Victoria, McPhee Gribble, 1989. Editor, The Faber Book of Contemporary Australian Short Stories...
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Lacy, Sam
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...stroke in 1999, his son brought him to work. When his fingers became too riddled with arthritis to type, he wrote out his column longhand, continuing until shortly before his death in May, 2003. Lacy's story began with his selling peanuts to the Jim Crow section...
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