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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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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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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English alphabet (section Notes and references)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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abbreviations – Abbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes Tironian notes – Roman shorthand system Typographic ligature – Glyph combining two...
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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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Enhanced Messaging Service Mobile dial code Operator messaging Telegram Tironian notes, scribal abbreviations and ligatures: Roman and medieval abbreviations...
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Pope Sylvester II (section Notes)
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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Trajan's column and the Column of Marcus Aurelius. Stenography See Tironian notes. Street map See Forma Urbis Romae (Severan Marble Plan), a carved marble...
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minuscule Fraktur Gaelic Insular IPA Kurrent Merovingian Sigla Sütterlin Tironian notes Visigothic Luo Lycian Lydian Manchu Medefaidrin Molodtsov Mru Mundari...
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List of eponymous adjectives in English (section Notes)
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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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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Stokoe Szarvas inscription Tani Teeline Shorthand Teotihuacan Tikamuli Tironian notes Tocharian script Unifon Vtafi Vtai yo Vtangsa Vatteluttu Veso Bey Visible...
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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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minuscule Fraktur Gaelic Insular IPA Kurrent Merovingian Sigla Sütterlin Tironian notes Visigothic Luo Lycian Lydian Manchu Medefaidrin Molodtsov Mru Mundari...
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One-letter word (section Notes)
letter. But it is rather the transcription of an abbreviation from a Tironian note, conventionally rendered as "q'", which is to be considered as a logogram...
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Bayeux Tapestry tituli (section Notes)
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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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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Christ- (e.g. Xian = Christian) Acronym and initialism Palaeography Tironian notes Classical abbreviations Medieval abbreviations Scribal abbreviations...
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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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