In the corresponding style of Phonography, every word that is not a logogram or a contraction, should be vocalized. The insertion of many vowels is impossible when writing the words of a fluent speaker; means are therefore devised in the reporting style, by which almost the legibility of the corresponding style is preserved, without the insertion of more than one vowel in a hundred words.

This brevity is attained, primarity, by making every phonograph do duty as a logograph, and writing it in three positions. In the corresponding style, two positions are used for vowel signs, half-sized characters, and horizontal signs, namely on and above the line; and one position only for full-sized upright and sloping characters, namely, on the line. In the reporting style, three positions for all signs are rendered equally distinct by writing

Full-sized, Upright and Sloping characters,

In the 1st position; just above the line.

In the 2nd position ; resting on the line.

In the 3rd position ; midway through the line.

Horizontal, and Half-sized Characters, and Vowel signs.

In the 1st position; above the line.

In the 2nd position; resting on the line.

In the 3rd position; immediately below the line. When double line paper is used, that is, paper ruled with lines somewhat less than one-eighth of an inch apart, and double that distance between the lines of writing - and such paper possesses many advantages for the reporter - the following are the positions to be observed:

For Full-sized, Upright, and Sloping characters,

In the 1st position; through the upper line.

In the 2nd position; between the lines.

In the 3rd position; through the lower line.

Double-length upright and sloping curves also occupy the same positions, the additional length being added to the end of the curve.

FoR Horizontal, Half-sized characters, and Vowel signs. In the 1st position ; immediately below the upper line. In the 2nd position; resting on the lower line. In the 3rd position ; immediately below the lower line.

The lower line of double ruled paper corresponds with the one line of single ruled paper. All printed Phonography is supposed to be written on a single line - real or imaginary -; hence the dotted line, when it is shown, corresponds with the one line of single ruled paper, and to the lower line of double ruled paper.

The position a word should occupy is determined by its accented or leading vowel. Words that contain first place vowels are written in the first position; words containing second place vowels are written in the second position ; and words containing third place vowels are written in the third position.

When a word is not located in accordance with these rules - and examples will be occasionally found in the following tables and exercises - it is, first,

Because some other word, containing a similar vowel, and of more frequent occurrence, has a prior claim to the position ; or, secondly,

Because a word containing two or more consonants is usually distinct enough in outline to be written in the second position - the most convenient to the writer - regardless of its accented vowel; or, thirdly,

Because when an outline occupies the entire depth of the line of writing, or runs above or below, and is not used for any other word, nothing is gained by writing it in any other than in the second position, irrespective of its leading vowel. As for example,