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    Tironian notes (Latin: notae Tironianae) are a form of thousands of signs that were formerly used in a system of shorthand (Tironian shorthand) dating...
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  • the character ⁊ (U+204A ⁊ TIRONIAN SIGN ET) is used in place of the ampersand. This character is a survival of Tironian notes, a medieval shorthand...
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    typeset using the Tironian et ⟨⁊⟩, as ⟨⁊c.⟩ in early incunables. Later, when typesets no longer contained a sort for the Tironian et, it became common...
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    occasion. The Tironian notes consisted of Latin word stem abbreviations (notae) and of word ending abbreviations (titulae). The original Tironian notes consisted...
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    the Tironian notes were developed possibly by Marcus Tullius Tiro, Cicero's amanuensis, in 63 BC to record information with fewer symbols; Tironian notes...
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    commonly used from the 3rd to 8th centuries AD by Latin and Greek scribes. Tironian notes were a shorthand system consisting of thousands of signs. New Roman...
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  • code, in preparation for inclusion in the Unicode Standard, although the Tironian et has already been included in Unicode. Weaver, Angus (1908). Abbreviated...
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    conjunction and, a character similar to the number seven (⟨⁊⟩, called ond or a Tironian et), and a symbol for the relative pronoun þæt, a thorn with a crossbar...
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    has many unique scribal abbreviations, along with many borrowings from Tironian notes. Insular script was spread to England by the Hiberno-Scottish mission;...
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    0922 U+203C ‼ Double exclamation mark 0923 U+203E ‾ Overline 0924 U+2044 ⁄ Fraction slash 0925 U+204A ⁊ Tironian et sign 0926 Code Glyph Description #...
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