Scorapice Shorthand

Scorapice Shorthand was created by Anatole Fiodorov as a way write English with the Russian shorthand system that conceived by Prof. Nikolai N. Sokolov (1900-1990) in the 1930s.

The name Scorapice sounds like the Russian word for speedwriting - скоропись. N. Sokolóv revealed a sufficient correlation between Russian and English consonants distribution. Far less agreement was found with the system of English vowel phonemes. The present system takes into account recent statistical description of the English language presented in the British National Corpus.

Notable features

Type of writing system: alphabet
Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines
Used to write: English
Simple and easy theory for comprehension.
Scorapice relies mainly on the sounds of speech unlike the Russian system which is based on the orthography.
Linearity of graphics similar to the longhand cursive writing.
Allowance for phoneme frequencies in the English language as well as occurrence of structural elements - consonant clusters and affixes.
Scorapice is characterized by graphical ease with sweeping curves and neat rounded shape of outlines.
High word-sign tolerance to speed writing distortion and by lapse of time.

Scorapice alphabet

Consonants

Scorapice consonants

Vowels

The vowel phonemes [ʌ], [ɑː] and [aɪ] between consonants are omitted, and the consonants are placed on the base-line as if the vowels were not there.

The diacritics are used occasionally to pinpoint vowel sounds in unfamiliar and isolated words or proper names, but otherwise vowels are hardly ever specified with diacritics.

The length of vowels is shown by a short dash above, while an apostrophe suggests the vowel [ɪ] in diphthongs. Both the dash and apostrophe are written after the entire word has been finished.

Examples:

Scorapice Vowels

The initial vowels [ʌ], [ɑː], [aɪ] and [ə] are written under the base-line, and in a word’s final position a long stroke is added at the end of the previous sign. The initial and final signs for vowels with [j] - [jʌ], [jɑː] and [jə] - are more tilted than for pure vowels. The final diphthong [aɪ] has a left curve to distinguish it from the pure vowel.

Examples:

Scorapice Vowels

There are no capital letters in Scorapice, that is why proper names are marked with a double dash underneath:

Scorapice proper names

Sample text in Scorapice

Links and References

Information about Scorapice
https://www.reddit.com/r/shorthand/comments/o4ht6y/scorapice_sokolov_system_adaptation_into_english/
https://www.reddit.com/r/FastWriting/comments/r61h7p/scorapice_consonants_and_vowels/

Fiodorov, A. (2019) Scorapice: English Shorthand, Intersteno, E-News 88 – March 2019, p. 34-39.

Scorapice : English shorthand : self-taught course / Anatole M. Fiodorov = Scorapice : angliĭskai︠a︡ stenografii︠a︡ : kurs dli︠a︡ samoobuchenii︠a︡. – Minsk : Kolorgrad, 2016. ISBN 978-985-596-571-9 (Available on TWIRPX.COM and British Library)

Scorapice : English Shorthand Reference-Dictionary / Anatole M. Fiodorov = Scorapice: angliĭskai︠a︡ stenografii︠a︡ slovar-spravochnik. – Minsk : Kolorgrad, 2020. – 82 p. ISBN 978-985-596-507-8. (Available on TWIRPX.COM)

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