Gloucestershire, England, 1837: renowned English educator Sir Isaac Pitman published what would become the most culturally significant of the seven books he wrote before his death in 1897, ...

It looks like hieroglyphics - but Pitman shorthand is a way of phonetically writing English at speed. Former court reporter and shorthand expert Mary Sorene attained a speed of 210 words per minute at ...

They crowd around the speaker, a bright-eyed, eager mob, and thrust their little digital recorders under his nose. If sequestered in a courtroom or a press box they must, I suppose, turn the volume to ...

The appeal for help led to a flurry of people on Twitter trying to transcribe the outlines A diary written in shorthand in 1915 has been deciphered thanks to the help of a stranger on Twitter. The ...

Proof that shorthand really is a universal language has been unveiledÖin The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy film. Pitman Training, the UKís leading provider of office and IT based training has spent ...

The third floor of Kandaya Bhavan, KG Road, in the heart of the city s milling with people, earnestness writ large on their aces. They are at the govern ment office not for any land related work, but ...