fonografic

Updated: May 19, 2025

To write that word with the phonographic alphabet, the pen has to make only FIVE strokes. To write the words "phonographic alphabet," the pen has to make fifty-three strokes. To write "fonografic alfabet," the pen has to make fifty strokes. To the penman, the saving in labor is insignificant. Without the vowels, only THIRTEEN strokes. We make five pen-strokes in writing an m. Total, five.

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