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    Tironian notes (Latin: notae Tironianae) are a form of thousands of signs that were formerly used in a system of shorthand (Tironian shorthand) dating...
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  • the character ⁊ (U+204A ⁊ TIRONIAN SIGN ET) is used in place of the ampersand. This character is a survival of Tironian notes, a medieval shorthand...
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    typeset using the Tironian et ⟨⁊⟩, as ⟨⁊c.⟩ in early incunables. Later, when typesets no longer contained a sort for the Tironian et, it became common...
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    occasion. The Tironian notes consisted of Latin word stem abbreviations (notae) and of word ending abbreviations (titulae). The original Tironian notes consisted...
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    the Tironian notes were developed possibly by Marcus Tullius Tiro, Cicero's amanuensis, in 63 BC to record information with fewer symbols; Tironian notes...
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    commonly used from the 3rd to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes. Tironian notes were a shorthand system consisting of thousands of signs. New Roman...
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  • code, in preparation for inclusion in the Unicode Standard, although the Tironian et has already been included in Unicode. Weaver, Angus (1908). Abbreviated...
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    conjunction and, a character similar to the number seven (⟨⁊⟩, called ond or a Tironian et) which is still used in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, and a symbol for...
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    has many unique scribal abbreviations, along with many borrowings from Tironian notes. Insular script was spread to England by the Hiberno-Scottish mission;...
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    returned to dominate by the Middle English period onward. The character ⁊ (Tironian et) was used as the ampersand (&) in contemporary Anglo-Saxon writings...
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    the symbols, but some will display the lowercase insular g (ᵹ) and the tironian et (⁊). Two fonts that support the other characters are Junicode and Tehuti...
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    0922 U+203C ‼ Double exclamation mark 0923 U+203E ‾ Overline 0924 U+2044 ⁄ Fraction slash 0925 U+204A ⁊ Tironian et sign 0926 Code Glyph Description #...
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  • Terminal punctuation History of sentence spacing for typographical details Tironian notes, a system of shorthand that consisted of about 4,000 signs Usage...
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    r rotunda ⟨ꝛ⟩ is sometimes used for et in place of the similar-looking Tironian et ⟨⁊⟩, followed by c, to yield ꝛc. In lists of people, et alia (abbreviated...
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  • the Old English poem Beowulf used many abbreviations, for example the Tironian et (⁊) or & for and, and y for since, so that "not much space is wasted"...
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  • river in Mindanao The Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary A symbol in the Tironian notes shorthand system (⟨⁊⟩) when used as an abbreviation for agus ("and")...
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    replacement of words by spellcheckers) Jejemon English language spelling reform Tironian notes, scribal abbreviations and ligatures (Roman and medieval abbreviations...
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  • set of consonants with dot above ⟨Ḃḃ Ċċ Ḋḋ Ḟḟ Ġġ Ṁṁ Ṗṗ Ṡṡ Ṫṫ⟩, and the Tironian sign et ⟨⁊⟩, used for agus 'and' in Irish. Gaelic typefaces also often...
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    existed earlier than that. The script uses many ligatures (see, e.g., Tironian notes), and some letters are hard to recognize – "a" looks like an uncial...
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    Scribal abbreviations – Abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes Tironian notes – Roman shorthand system Typographic ligature – Glyph combining two...
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    including the ampersand, then 5 additional English letters, starting with the Tironian note ond (⁊), an insular symbol for and: A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P...
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  • were used as digraphs, representing a single sound. Also used was the Tironian note ⟨⁊⟩ (a character similar to the digit 7) for the conjunction and....
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    several anachronistic glyphs, such as Arabic numerals, ampersand (instead of Tironian et) and several punctuation marks, but lacks letter alternatives like long...
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    Guy, count of Ponthieu. This symbol, resembling a right-angled 7, is a Tironian note abbreviation for et ("and"). Possibly a member of either or Duke William...
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    nineteenth canon table that is more simply decorated. On folio 11 there are Tironian notes in a 9th-century French hand. The manuscript was owned by Cardinal...
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  • signs or brevigraphs: Symbols replacing words or syllables. Examples: Tironian et (⁊) for ok, ᛘ for maðr, syllabic et (Ꝫꝫ) in mꝫ (með) for /eð/. Superscript...
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  • Quikscript Romanian transitional alphabet Szarvas inscription Teeline Shorthand Tironian notes Great Lakes Algonquian syllabics fictional constructed writing systems...
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    Enhanced Messaging Service Mobile dial code Operator messaging Telegram Tironian notes, scribal abbreviations and ligatures: Roman and medieval abbreviations...
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  • Irish punctuation is similar to English. An apparent exception is the Tironian et (⟨⁊⟩; agus) which abbreviates the word agus "and", like the ampersand...
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  • — Christ- (e.g. Xian = Christian) Acronym and initialism Palaeography Tironian notes Classical abbreviations Medieval abbreviations Scribal abbreviations...
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