Told on the Pagoda: Tales of Burmah
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From Told on the Pagoda: Tales of Burmah by Mimosa, Chan-Toon, Mabel Mary Agnes Cosgrove (1895). Text from Project Gutenberg, audio from Librivox
It surprises me how little information is available about this absolute gem of a book. While relatively short, in my opinion, this collection should be considered historically and culturally significant; the lack of citations, research, mentions, etcetera is really surprising to me. The original book does not contain any introduction, forward, or any other text to provide context (or as was more common during the mid 1800s to early 1900s, insensitive and/or demeaning colonialisms). This is refreshing - it's nice to see a collection of regional traditional sagas stand on its own without any attempts to "frame" it within the editor's cultural paradigm. Although, the lack of information about how, where, when, etc., these were collected is also somewhat frustrating!
There are a total of seven stories within this book ranging from 1,486 to 2,795 words for a total of 14,802 words. The stories are organized from shortest to longest - they are not in the same order as the original book. Only three of the stories have Librivox audio files. StenoJig is enabled on all seven. Some minor changes to capitalization, punctuation and spelling have been made to better align with modern English punctuation and American English spellings.
Overall, despite all the names and words listed below that are not in the default Plover dictionary, you will find this to be pretty straightforward to practice steno with. The writing style and word usage is primarily one and two stroke words with the occasional longer word to challenge you (such as magnificently, inexpressible and particularly).
Punctuation used in this book:
- Period .
- Comma ,
- Exclamation !
- Question Mark ?
- Single quote ' ( -PBT, use AES for 's)
- Double quote " (Open KW-GS close KR-GS)
- Semi-colon ;
- Colon :
- Hyphen -
- Dash -- (Default stroke is TK-RB)
- Parentheses (Open PREPB close PR*EPB)
Names/words not found in Plover's default dictionary: You will need to create your own brief/outline in your user.json dictionary for these words (or fingerspell them). I suggest creating a separate "job dictionary".
- Ahrottaya
- Amarapoora
- Bandaya (a type of tree)
- Bayanathee
- betel
- cheroots
- chetty (a money lender)
- chunam, chunamed (A type of plaster made from shell lime and sand.)
- demesne
- Gandremadana
- Goung
- kakayu
- Gandremadana
- Goung
- kakayu
- Khine
- Kisokok
- lun
- Mah (Mah May)
- Manoo
- Mindoon
- Min Goung
- Moulla
- Narada
- Nāt, nāts
- Nicomar
- Ootoppa
- Padoma
- pasohs
- Phoongyee
- pice (an old form of currency)
- plaintain (Not to be confused with the banana-like plantain, plaintains are a traditional medicinal herb.)
- rahan, rahanship (A rahan is one possessed of supernatural powers.)
- servitor
- stolidly
- Tah
- Thada
- Thanwara
- Thaya
- tameins (A skirt or sari traditionally worn by women in Myanmar/Burma.)
- Thakada
- Theebaw
- Thomana
- wallahs
- yojana, yojanas (archaic measurement of distance equal to 8 miles/12.8 kilometers)
- Gandremadana
- Goung
- kakayu
- Gandremadana
- Goung
- kakayu
- Khine
- Kisokok
- lun
- Mah (Mah May)
- Manoo
- Mindoon
- Moulla
- Narada
- Nāt
- Nicomar
- Ootoppa
- Padoma
- pasohs
- Phoongyee
- pice (an old form of currency)
- plaintain (Not to be confused with the banana-like plantain, plaintains are a traditional medicinal herb.)
- rahan, rahanship (A rahan is one possessed of supernatural powers.)
- sylvan
- Tah
- Thada
- Thanwara
- Thati
- Thaya
- tameins (A skirt or sari traditionally worn by women in Myanmar/Burma.)
- Thakada
- Theebaw
- Thomana
- wallahs
- yojana, yojanas (archaic measurement of distance equal to 8 miles/12.8 kilometers)
- Zita
aright (A/RAOEUT)
dunni (TKUPB/SKWREU)
Hiri (HAO*ER/SKWREU)
mala (PHAL/AEU)
potsos (POTS/OS)
Prome (PROPL/SKWRE)
Prefix^ and ^suffix strokes used above:
- ^e SKWRE
- ^i SKWREU
- ^os OS
- ^a KWRA
- a^ A
- mal^ PHAL
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