Unit 26

The Abbreviating Principle
(Continued)

     198.  Write through the consonant following the accented syllable, if writing through the accented syllable does not give a sufficiently distinctive form.
     To illustrate, writing ab for the word absent would not be sufficiently distinctive, but by writing abs, the word is immediately suggested.  In context, at would not suggest attitude or attribute, but atit and atrib would furnish perfectly legible forms:

Omission of Vowel Before "Shun"

     199.  The vowel is omitted in the terminations tition, tation, dition, dation, nition, nation, mission, and mation:

200.  Reading and Dictation Practice