99. A method of vocalization peculiar to phrasing is practised by many reporters. Though an incomplete outline used as a word-sign does not usually require or even allow vocalization, such an outline is sometimes made clear in phrasing by the insertion of a vowel. For example, the reporter, having hurriedly phrased the words this language, may immediately see a possibility of the phrase being read this thing; so, by way of precaution he inserts a distinguishing vowel, thus

Or, having, on the spur of the moment, phrased this object

he instantly sees that,

though this subject would be written

the small dif-

Word-Distinctions

ference between a single and a double circle may not insure the phrase against being hastily misread. So, instead of rewriting it, he inserts, as a safeguard against mistake, a characteristic or distinguishing vowel, thus

(Graham's Second Reader, page 99.) In such cases, the vowel inserted is, of course, the one belonging to the particular part of the word-sign which is written in lieu of the whole.