A list of word-abbreviations containing either beginning or final hooks is presented in table on opposite page. Learn them as directed for the Word-Signs of Lesson VIII, and the Common Abbreviations of last lesson. They will be found upon better acquaintance to be exceedingly handy, not only containing important speed elements, but being also thoroughly legible when well memorized.

Signs 113 to 141 in Exercise, illustrate the adaptability of the abbreviations in this list being extended by adding terminating differences, the word remembrance, sign 114, being simply remember, sign 113, with an Ns circle added; equalled, sign 118, being formed by halving the word equal, sign 117; over their; sign 131, being a lengthened over, sign 130; and a number of words, as in signs 137 to 141, being formed from the word-abbreviation for organ, illustrating clearly the apparent inexhaustibility of word-abbreviation formation, aside from the instances given in the lesson.

In memorizing word-abbreviation lists, the student should bear in mind, as explained in connection with the Common Abbreviations in Lesson IX (Common Abbreviations), that it must not be expected of word-abbreviations that they should in every case agree in position with their vowel sounds. Sometimes the greater conspicuousness of a vowel in one word-abbreviation will compel another word-abbreviation with less conspicuous vowel sound, to occupy a position which, reasoning by place position rule, would properly not belong to it. The word-abbreviations in the foregoing list of the Common Abbreviations is evidence of this. Furthermore, it is not always the case that conflictions with another word-abbreviation causes it to be written in a position out of accordance with its vowel elements. Sometimes a word-abbreviation is given an apparently wrong position because the outline of some ordinary word, not a word-abbreviation, would conflict with it. Again, words with first or third-place vowels are sometimes represented by signs written in the second position, on the line, simply because that is the easiest position in which to write; though this is done only in cases wherein the word-abbreviations would be perfectly familiar in any position and at the same time would not clash with common or other words of similar outline.

A student's practice in the art of rapid, and, at the same time, legible writing, depends very greatly upon the frequency and length of time given to practising the art. Students who practice most frequently and for the longest period at a time master the art first.