Terry Boon<p>FT on the rise and decline of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/shorthand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shorthand</span></a> - and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Intersteno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Intersteno</span></a>'s modern <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/speedwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>speedwriting</span></a> competitions where pen shorthand-writer are few and "most were fleet-fingered word-processors, swift Stenotype-jockeys and captioners on their piano-like chord-writing machines, or even young texters". (Recent winning speed: 415 syllables per minute!) <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/b65a40f4-ad61-4b9d-acc4-6d9fdb5a14f2" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ft.com/content/b65a40f4-ad61-4</span><span class="invisible">b9d-acc4-6d9fdb5a14f2</span></a></p>