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    13,000 signs. The use of Tironian notes lasted into the 17th century. A few Tironian signs are still used today. Tironian notes can be themselves composites...
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    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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    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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  • Ampersand (section Notes)
    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 system...
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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Long s (section Notes)
    alternative hypothesis claims that the German letter ß originated in Tironian notes. Some old orthographic systems of Slavonic and Baltic languages used...
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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 Mazarin...
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  • Cicero's life. He is credited with inventing the shorthand system of Tironian notes, later used by medieval monks, among others. There is no clear evidence...
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    vernacular documents roman cursive or even a form of shorthand, called tironian notes, were used. Whereas the meticulously drawn textualis quadrata was the...
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  • Timurid – Timur (Tamerlane) (as in Timurid Empire) Tironian – Marcus Tullius Tiro (as in Tironian notes) Titanic – Titan (as in Titanic prime) Tolkienism...
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  • Fraktur Gaelic Insular Interlac IPA Kurrent Merovingian Sigla Sütterlin Tironian notes Visigothic Luo Lycian Lydian Manchu Medefaidrin Molodtsov Mru Mundari...
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  • added five metrical formulae, and two Merovingian formulae written in Tironian notes. "Formulæ Pithoei" In a manuscript loaned by Pithou to Du Cange for...
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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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    abbreviations – Abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes Tironian notes – Roman shorthand system Typographic ligature – Glyph combining two...
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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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    column and the Column of Marcus Aurelius. Stenography, a system of See Tironian notes. Street map, early See Forma Urbis Romae (Severan Marble Plan), a carved...
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    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 Q...
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  • Stokoe Szarvas inscription Tani Teeline Shorthand Teotihuacan Tikamuli Tironian notes Tocharian script Tolong siki Tulu Unifon Vtafi Vtai yo Vtangsa Vatteluttu...
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    differs from the other manuscripts. This symbol is reminiscent of the "Tironian note" for the Latin word "ter" from the Roman shorthand. The reason for this...
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  • typography), though some modern fonts replace the ampersand with the Tironian note ostensibly because both mean 'and'. The Irish uncial alphabet originated...
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  • 1890. Marcus Tullius Tiro - Roman secretary, ascribed invention of Tironian notes shorthand c. 63 BC, according to tradition. J. R. R. Tolkien - British...
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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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  • volume he treated the Greek and Latin Stenography, in the second the Tironian notes. Kopp was the first to recognize the derivation of this writing from...
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    SMS language (section Notes)
    of words by spellcheckers) Jejemon English language spelling reform Tironian notes, scribal abbreviations and ligatures (Roman and medieval abbreviations...
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    translate from the intermediate code into their own. It was based on the Tironian notes system, supposedly devised by Cicero's secretary. In 1624 Augustus the...
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  • Punctuation (section Notes)
    Terminal punctuation History of sentence spacing for typographical details Tironian notes, a system of shorthand that consisted of about 4,000 signs Usage The...
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    Fraktur Gaelic Insular Interlac IPA Kurrent Merovingian Sigla Sütterlin Tironian notes Visigothic Luo Lycian Lydian Manchu Medefaidrin Molodtsov Mru Mundari...
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