SHORTHAND I (ENGLISH) 13. DIPHONIC AND MEDIAL SEMICIRCLE By now you must be familiar with making strokes of consonants and vowels together. There are some words in which two vowel sounds are pronounced separately. A stenographer should be able to write shorthand script of such words.
13.0 Objectives After going through this lesson you will be able to – 1)
make the strokes of the words represented by First place diphone;
2)
make the strokes of the words represented by Second place diphone;
3)
make the strokes of the words represented by Third place diphone;
4)
differentiate between Dipthongs and diphones;
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make the strokes of the words indicated by right semicircle at First, Second and Third places of the stroke and representing the sound of consonant W according to the positions of vowels; and
6)
make the strokes of the words indicated by left semicircle at First, Second and Third places of the stroke and representing the sound of consonant W according to the positions of vowels.
13.1 Introduction In this lesson you will be made familiar with making strokes of the words having two vowel sounds consecutively. In addition to this, you will learn the use of left and right semicircles at different positions of the strokes representing the sound of consonant W.
13.2 Diphones Diphone is a union of two vowel sounds occurring consecutively and pronounced separately (Di= double + phone= a sound) Diphones are represented by two angular signs like sign of on the ( ) for dot vowel diphone, and like sign of and the ( ) for dash vowel diphone. Dot Vowel Diphones :
(like sign of on the)
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