shorthand

[Ben Zimmer]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 7:56 PM,  <ronbutters at aol.com> wrote:
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> "learn shorthand" gets 1.25 million raw Google hits. Not what one would
> expect for an allegedly nearly extinct enterprise.

In quotation marks, it gets "about 17,300."

Google's Ngram Viewer suggests a precipitous fall since c. 1955.

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