83. The law of multiple meanings, or safe ambiguity, may be stated thus: Two or more significations may safely be attached to a single sign, if those significations are so remote in sense that when the signs are linked with a context in any intelligently constructed sentence, the wrong signification cannot reasonably or sensibly be substituted for the right one. It will be found that in the arrangement of the word-signs of the stenographic system, where two or more meanings have been assigned to a single character, the assignment has in general been made in accordance with the principle just stated.

84. Context as a means of word-distinction becomes especially helpful in the reading and writing of phrases; for, as has been well said, "When phrase combinations are well chosen and correctly written, the words are more easily read than when written separately." (Isaac Pitman.)*