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phonography

[foh-nog-ruh-fee] / foʊˈnɒg rə fi /
NOUN
stenography
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The recording, part of Capitol's new import of Russian phonography, is disappointing.

From Time Magazine Archive

The printer is, by the way, not the only artisan whose occupation phonography has destroyed.

From With The Eyes Shut 1898 by Bellamy, Edward

A great many learners of this art prefer to have a teacher's help, though phonography can be mastered without such aid.

From Work for Women by Manson, George J.

The system of short-hand practised by the vast majority of writers, both in this country and in England, is phonography, invented by Isaac Pitman, of Bath, England, in 1837.

From Work for Women by Manson, George J.

For this phonography really amounts to a study of the cheapest way of spelling words.

From Certain Personal Matters by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)




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