the briefest outlines for words by dropping the terminations. This abbreviating principle, if properly carried out, will place at the finger ends of the Gregg writer the briefest and easiest written outlines possible in any system of shorthand, and yet secure a degree of legibility not equaled by any other method. In your work, then, find that outline, as you readily can do, that is the most easily written, although it may occupy on the paper a rather larger space than a briefer though more difficult outline. When found, "make a note of it" and practice it. Never strive after a brief outline to the sacrifice of legibility.
INVARIABILITY OF OUTLINE.
In a properly constituted system of shorthand there should, in the main, be but one way of writing a word. The less variability of outline there is, the better. "Frequent hesitation as to the proper forms of words," writes the author of Graham's Shorthand—Andrew J. Graham—"takes away very much from the facility of writing." The Gregg is especially remarkable for its invariability of outline. The majority of words in the English language can be written in one way only in the Gregg—hence its superiority over the other methods. Mr. David Wolfe Brown writes: "Invariability of outline is one prime factor of speed. To allow one's self to write a word in several different ways entails a certain degree of hesitation, which must postpone or defeat
