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Pitman2|ˈpɪtmæn|
The name of Sir Isaac Pitman (1813–97) used attrib., absol., and in the possessive to denote a system of shorthand notation devised by him and first published in 1837.
Pitman's Shorthand is a proprietary name in the U.K.
[1862M. Levy Hist. Short-hand xvii. 167 Compare their rules with those of Pitman, in which he explains how to write the Scotch guttural.] 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 838/2 The main features of Pitman's system must now be described. 1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 74/1 The Reporter's Style of the Pitman System, by which fluent speakers can be reported verbatim. 1907Trade Marks Jrnl. 5 June 963 Pitman's Shorthand Isaac Pitman 292,180. 1916G. B. Shaw Pygmalion Pref. 101 His [sc. Sweet's] true objective was the provision of a full, accurate, legible script for our noble but ill-dressed language; but he was led past that by his contempt for the popular Pitman system of shorthand, which he called the Pitfall system. Ibid., There was a weekly paper to persuade you to learn Pitman... I actually learned the [sc. Sweet's] system..and yet the shorthand in which I am writing these lines is Pitman's. 1951E. Coxhead One Green Bottle vi. 171 What's Ogam?.. A sort of prehistoric Pitman's? 1969K. Giles Death cracks Bottle ii. 17, I think my Pitman is decipherable. 1970E. McGirr Death pays Wages ii. 52 It is an exercise book and the entries are in very clear Pitman. 1976Daily Times (Lagos) 8 Oct. 24/1 (Advt.), Applicants should possess WASC preferably with credit in English Language or equivalent and RSA or Pitmans or Government Certificate or their equivalent for 100/50 w.p.m. in shorthand and typewriting.
Hence Pitˈmanic a., resembling or suggestive of Pitman shorthand; ˈPitmanite, a student or exponent of the Pitman system; ˈpitmanize v. trans., to fill (a book) with Pitman shorthand.
1908G. B Shaw Let. 29 June (1972) II. 793 The other day I was confronted with an old copy of the Academy, dated 1898, with some shorthand notes on the margin... You can imagine how the honest Pitmanite who was asked to decipher it..believed that he had saved me from a fearful scandal. 1912Beerbohm Christmas Garland 14 Seven whole 8 × 5 inch note-books had I pitmanised to the brim. 1925Blackw. Mag. Aug. 264/1, I saw..a sheet of notepaper scribbled with Pitmanic symbols. 1960Times 28 Sept. 13/4 What odds if the Pitmanic ‘X’ full stops were sometimes deliberately exaggerated! |