100. Sometimes a word or a phrase which, if the characters were carefully shaped, would be perfectly legible, is, in the hurry of writing, slightingly or imperfectly formed; and the defect is instantly recognized by the writer. In such cases vocalization is often his hastily-seized safeguard against possible misreading. A vowel or two, however hurriedly inserted, may show clearly the word intended, and the insertion may be much more quickly accomplished than retouching the outline of the word or re-writing the phrase.