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The Teeline rendering of the word "Teeline"

A Searchable Teeline Dictionary

Hi everybody! A while ago, I did a post on learning Teeline, which was really fun to write. Since then, I’ve learned a lot more, and wanted to share with you in the best way I know how: by curating my own Teeline dictionary!

It was important to me to create a dictionary that was easily searchable, because so much out there is image-only, and you have to manually scour resources. I want this to be a resource that is easy and available!

So far the dictionary contains 674 words. I have done my best to show multiple ways of expressing words (specifically with the upward/downward ‘L’), but keep in mind that there might be a different way to write any given word that’s equally valid.

If you have any requests, suggestions, corrections, or general comments, please let me know! I would be happy to include them in the dictionary. I intend this to be a living project, and I want it to grow and evolve to be the best (and most useful) it can be.

A Searchable Teeline Dictionary

A:
The Teeline word A
Able:
The Teeline word Able
About:
The Teeline word About
Above:
The Teeline word Above
Accident:
The Teeline word Accident
Act:
The Teeline word Act
After:
The Teeline word After
Aftermath:
The Teeline word Aftermath
Afternoon:
The Teeline word Afternoon
Again:
The Teeline word Again
Against:
The Teeline word Against
Age:
The Teeline word Age
Ago:
The Teeline word Ago
Air:
The Teeline word Air
All:
The Teeline word All
Also:
The Teeline word Also
Always:
The Teeline word Always
Am:
The Teeline word Am
Among:
The Teeline word Among
Amount:
The Teeline word Amount
An:
The Teeline word An
And:
The Teeline word And
Animal:
The Teeline word Animal (version 1)

or
The Teeline word Animal (version 2)
Announce:
The Teeline word Announce
Announced:
The Teeline word Announced
Answer:
The Teeline word Answer
Any:
The Teeline word Any
Anything:
The Teeline word Anything
Appear:
The Teeline word Appear
April:
The Teeline word April
Are:
The Teeline word Are
Area:
The Teeline word Area
As:
The Teeline word As
Ask:
The Teeline word Ask
Astronomy:
The Teeline word Astronomy
At:
The Teeline word At
Atom:
The Teeline word Atom
Attention:
The Teeline word Attention
August:
The Teeline word August
Automatic:
The Teeline word Automatic
Avoid:
The Teeline word Avoid
Back:
The Teeline word Back
Base:
The Teeline word Base
Be:
The Teeline word Be
Beaker:
The Teeline word Beaker
Beauty:
The Teeline word Beauty
Bed:
The Teeline word Bed
Been:
The Teeline word Been (version 1)

or
The Teeline word Been (version 2)
Before:
The Teeline word Before
Began:
The Teeline word Began
Begin:
The Teeline word Begin
Behind:
The Teeline word Behind
Best:
The Teeline word Best
Better:
The Teeline word Better
Between:
The Teeline word Between
Big:
The Teeline word Big
Biochemistry:
The Teeline word Biochemistry
Biology:
The Teeline word Biology
Bird:
The Teeline word Bird
Black:
The Teeline word Black
Blue:
The Teeline word Blue
Boat:
The Teeline word Boat
Body:
The Teeline word Body
Book:
The Teeline word Book
Both:
The Teeline word Both
Box:
The Teeline word Box
Boy:
The Teeline word Boy
Bread:
The Teeline word Bread
Bring:
The Teeline word Bring
Brought:
The Teeline word Brought
Build:
The Teeline word Build
Bursting:
The Teeline word Bursting
Business:
The Teeline word Business
Busy:
The Teeline word Busy
But:
The Teeline word But
Buy:
The Teeline word Buy
By:
The Teeline word By
Call:
The Teeline word Call
Came:
The Teeline word Came
Campaign:
The Teeline word Campaign
Can:
The Teeline word Can
Car:
The Teeline word Car
Care:
The Teeline word Care
Carry:
The Teeline word Carry
Cat:
The Teeline word Cat
Cause:
The Teeline word Cause
Cell:
The Teeline word Cell
Center:
The Teeline word Center
Centimeter:
The Teeline word Centimeter
Certain:
The Teeline word Certain
Change:
The Teeline word Change
Chapter:
The Teeline word Chapter
Check:
The Teeline word Check
Chemical:
The Teeline word Chemical
Chemistry:
The Teeline word Chemistry
Children:
The Teeline word Children
City:
The Teeline word City
Class:
The Teeline word Class
Clear:
The Teeline word Clear
Climate:
The Teeline word Climate
Close:
The Teeline word Close
Cold:
The Teeline word Cold
Come:
The Teeline word Come
Common:
The Teeline word Common
Communication:
The Teeline word Communication
Complete:
The Teeline word Complete
Contain:
The Teeline word Contain
Control:
The Teeline word Control
Convenient:
The Teeline word Convenient
Convenience:
The Teeline word Convenience
Correct:
The Teeline word Correct
Could:
The Teeline word Could
Country:
The Teeline word Country
Course:
The Teeline word Course
Cover:
The Teeline word Cover
Criticism:
The Teeline word Criticism
Cross:
The Teeline word Cross
Cry:
The Teeline word Cry
Cut:
The Teeline word Cut
Dark:
The Teeline word Dark
Data:
The Teeline word Data
Datum:
The Teeline word Datum
Day:
The Teeline word Day (version 1)

or
The Teeline word Day (version 2)
December:
The Teeline word December
Decide:
The Teeline word Decide
Deep:
The Teeline word Deep
Deserve:
The Teeline word Deserve
Develop:
The Teeline word Develop
Determined:
The Teeline word Determined
Did:
The Teeline word Did
Differ:
The Teeline word Differ
Difference:
The Teeline word Difference
Different:
The Teeline word Different
Direct:
The Teeline word Direct
Diversified:
The Teeline word Diversified
Do:
The Teeline word Do
Does:
The Teeline word Does
Dog:
The Teeline word Dog
Don’t:
The Teeline word Don't
Done:
The Teeline word Done
Door:
The Teeline word Door
Down:
The Teeline word Down
Draw:
The Teeline word Draw
Drive:
The Teeline word Drive
Dry:
The Teeline word Dry
During:
The Teeline word During
Each:
The Teeline word Each
Early:
The Teeline word Early
Earth:
The Teeline word Earth
Ease:
The Teeline word Ease
East:
The Teeline word East
Easy:
The Teeline word Easy
Eat:
The Teeline word Eat
Eight:
The Teeline word Eight
Electricity:
The Teeline word Electricity
Electronic:
The Teeline word Electronic
Element:
The Teeline word Element
E-mail:
The Teeline word e-Mail
End:
The Teeline word End
Energy:
The Teeline word Energy
Engagement:
The Teeline word Engagement
Enough:
The Teeline word Enough
Equal:
The Teeline word Equal
Even:
The Teeline word Even
Ever:
The Teeline word Ever
Every:
The Teeline word Every
Everyone:
The Teeline word Everyone
Everything:
The Teeline word Everything
Evolution:
The Teeline word Evolution
Examination:
The Teeline word Examination
Example:
The Teeline word Example
Experiment:
The Teeline word Experiment
Eye:
The Teeline word Eye
Face:
The Teeline word Face
Fact:
The Teeline word Fact
Fall:
The Teeline word Fall
Family:
The Teeline word Family (version 1)

or
The Teeline word Family (version 2)
Far:
The Teeline word Far
Farm:
The Teeline word Farm
Farther:
The Teeline word Farther
Fast:
The Teeline word Fast
Fat:
The Teeline word Fat
Father:
The Teeline word Father
February:
The Teeline word February
Feel:
The Teeline word Feel
Feet:
The Teeline word Feet
Few:
The Teeline word Few
Field:
The Teeline word Field
Figure:
The Teeline word Figure
Fill:
The Teeline word Fill
Final:
The Teeline word Final (version 1)

or
The Teeline word Final (version 2)
Find:
The Teeline word Find
Fine:
The Teeline word Fine
Fire:
The Teeline word Fire
Firm:
The Teeline word Firm
First:
The Teeline word First
Fish:
The Teeline word Fish
Five:
The Teeline word Five
Flask:
The Teeline word Flask
Fly:
The Teeline word Fly
Follow:
The Teeline word Follow
Food:
The Teeline word Food
Foot:
The Teeline word Foot
For:
The Teeline word For
Force:
The Teeline word Force
Form:
The Teeline word Form
Found:
The Teeline word Found
Four:
The Teeline word Four
Free:
The Teeline word Free
Friday:
The Teeline word Friday
Friend:
The Teeline word Friend
From:
The Teeline word From
Front:
The Teeline word Front
Full:
The Teeline word Full
Funnel:
The Teeline word Funnel (version 1)

or
The Teeline word Funnel (version 2)
Further:
The Teeline word Further
Game:
The Teeline word Game
Gave:
The Teeline word Gave
General:
The Teeline word General
Genetics:
The Teeline word Genetics
Geology:
The Teeline word Geology
Get:
The Teeline word Get
Girl:
The Teeline word Girl
Give:
The Teeline word Give
Go:
The Teeline word Go
Gold:
The Teeline word Gold
Good:
The Teeline word Good
Got:
The Teeline word Got
Govern:
The Teeline word Govern
Government:
The Teeline word Government
Gram:
The Teeline word Gram
Graph:
The Teeline word Graph
Gravity:
The Teeline word Gravity
Great:
The Teeline word Great
Green:
The Teeline word Green
Grew:
The Teeline word Grew
Grid:
The Teeline word Grid
Grind:
The Teeline word Grind
Ground:
The Teeline word Ground
Group:
The Teeline word Group
Grow:
The Teeline word Grow
Had:
The Teeline word Had (version 1)

or
The Teeline word Had (version 2)
Half:
The Teeline word Half
Hand:
The Teeline word Hand
Happen:
The Teeline word Happen
Hard:
The Teeline word Hard
Has:
The Teeline word Has
Have:
The Teeline word Have
He:
The Teeline word He
Head:
The Teeline word Head
Health:
The Teeline word Health
Hear:
The Teeline word Hear
Heard:
The Teeline word Heard
Heat:
The Teeline word Heat
Held:
The Teeline word Held
Help:
The Teeline word Help
Her:
The Teeline word Her
Here:
The Teeline word Here
Hers:
The Teeline word Hers
Herself:
The Teeline word Herself
Hi:
The Teeline word Hi
High:
The Teeline word High
Him:
The Teeline word Him
Himself:
The Teeline word Himself
His:
The Teeline word His
Hold:
The Teeline word Hold
Hole:
The Teeline word Hole
Home:
The Teeline word Home
Horse:
The Teeline word Horse
Hot:
The Teeline word Hot
Hour:
The Teeline word Hour
Hundred:
The Teeline word Hundred (version 1)

or
The Teeline word Hundred (version 2)
Hypothesis:
The Teeline word Hypothesis
I:
The Teeline word I
Idea:
The Teeline word Idea
If:
The Teeline word If
Immediate:
The Teeline word Immediate
Implementation:
The Teeline word Implementation
Important:
The Teeline word Important
Improving:
The Teeline word Improving
In:
The Teeline word In
Inch:
The Teeline word Inch
Inconvenient:
The Teeline word Inconvenient
Individual:
The Teeline word Individual
Interest:
The Teeline word Interest
Is:
The Teeline word Is
Island:
The Teeline word Island
It:
The Teeline word It
January:
The Teeline word January (version 1)

or
The Teeline word January (version 2)
Jesus:
The Teeline word Jesus
July:
The Teeline word July
June:
The Teeline word June
Just:
The Teeline word Just
Keep:
The Teeline word Keep
Kilogram:
The Teeline word Kilogram
Kilometer:
The Teeline word Kilometer
Kind:
The Teeline word Kind
King:
The Teeline word King
Knew:
The Teeline word Knew
Know:
The Teeline word Know
Lab:
The Teeline word Lab
Land:
The Teeline word Land
Language:
The Teeline word Language
Large:
The Teeline word Large
Last:
The Teeline word Last
Late:
The Teeline word Late
Laugh:
The Teeline word Laugh
Law:
The Teeline word Law
Lay:
The Teeline word Lay
Lead:
The Teeline word Lead
Learn:
The Teeline word Learn
Leave:
The Teeline word Leave
Left:
The Teeline word Left
Less:
The Teeline word Less
Let:
The Teeline word Let
Letter:
The Teeline word Letter
Lie:
The Teeline word Lie
Life:
The Teeline word Life
Light:
The Teeline word Light
Like:
The Teeline word Like
Line:
The Teeline word Line
List:
The Teeline word List
Listen:
The Teeline word Listen
Liter:
The Teeline word Liter
Little:
The Teeline word Little
Live:
The Teeline word Live
Long:
The Teeline word Long
Look:
The Teeline word Look
Lost:
The Teeline word Lost
Lot:
The Teeline word Lot
Love:
The Teeline word Love
Low:
The Teeline word Low
Machine:
The Teeline word Machine
Made:
The Teeline word Made
Main:
The Teeline word Main
Make:
The Teeline word Make
Man:
The Teeline word Man
Many:
The Teeline word Many
Map:
The Teeline word Map
March:
The Teeline word March
Mark:
The Teeline word Mark
Mass:
The Teeline word Mass
Matter:
The Teeline word Matter
Maximum:
The Teeline word Maximum
May:
The Teeline word May
Me:
The Teeline word Me
Mean:
The Teeline word Mean
Measure:
The Teeline word Measure
Media:
The Teeline word Media
Member:
The Teeline word Member
Men:
The Teeline word Men
Met:
The Teeline word Met
Meter:
The Teeline word Meter
Microscope:
The Teeline word Microscope
Might:
The Teeline word Might
Mile:
The Teeline word Mile (version 1)

or
The Teeline word Mile (version 2)
Milliliter:
The Teeline word Milliliter
Millimeter:
The Teeline word Millimeter
Million:
The Teeline word Million (version 1)

or
The Teeline word Million (version 2)
Mind:
The Teeline word Mind
Mineral:
The Teeline word Mineral
Minimum:
The Teeline word Minimum
Minute:
The Teeline word Minute
Miss:
The Teeline word Miss
Molecule:
The Teeline word Molecule (version 1)

or
The Teeline word Molecule (version 2)
Monday:
The Teeline word Monday
Money:
The Teeline word Money
Moon:
The Teeline word Moon
More:
The Teeline word More
Morning:
The Teeline word Morning
Most:
The Teeline word Most
Mother:
The Teeline word Mother
Motion:
The Teeline word Motion
Mountain:
The Teeline word Mountain
Move:
The Teeline word Move
Much:
The Teeline word Much
Multiply:
The Teeline word Multiply
Multitude:
The Teeline word Multitude
Music:
The Teeline word Music
Must:
The Teeline word Must
My:
The Teeline word My
Myself:
The Teeline word Myself
Name:
The Teeline word Name
Nation:
The Teeline word Nation
National:
The Teeline word National
Near:
The Teeline word Near
Necessary:
The Teeline word Necessary
Need:
The Teeline word Need
Never:
The Teeline word Never
New:
The Teeline word New
Next:
The Teeline word Next
Night:
The Teeline word Night
Nine:
The Teeline word Nine
No:
The Teeline word No
North:
The Teeline word North
Not:
The Teeline word Not
Note:
The Teeline word Note
Nothing:
The Teeline word Nothing
Notice:
The Teeline word Notice
Noun:
The Teeline word Noun
November:
The Teeline word November
Now:
The Teeline word Now
Number:
The Teeline word Number
Numeral:
The Teeline word Numeral (version 1)

or
The Teeline word Numeral (version 2)
Object:
The Teeline word Object
Observe:
The Teeline word Observe
October:
The Teeline word October
Of:
The Teeline word Of
Off:
The Teeline word Off
Often:
The Teeline word Often
Oh:
The Teeline word Oh
Old:
The Teeline word Old
On:
The Teeline word On
Once:
The Teeline word Once
One:
The Teeline number One (version 1)

or
The Teeline number One (version 2)
Only:
The Teeline word Only
Open:
The Teeline word Open
Or:
The Teeline word Or
Order:
The Teeline word Order
Organism:
The Teeline word Organism
Other:
The Teeline word Other
Our:
The Teeline word Our
Ourselves:
The Teeline word Ourselves
Out:
The Teeline word Out
Over:
The Teeline word Over
Overdue:
The Teeline word Overdue
Overlook:
The Teeline word Overlook
Own:
The Teeline word Own
Page:
The Teeline word Page
Paid:
The Teeline word Paid
Paleontology:
The Teeline word Paleontology
Paper:
The Teeline word Paper
Part:
The Teeline word Part
Particle:
The Teeline word Particle
Pass:
The Teeline word Pass
Pattern:
The Teeline word Pattern
People:
The Teeline word People
Percent:
The Teeline word Percent
Perhaps:
The Teeline word Perhaps
Person:
The Teeline word Person
Phase:
The Teeline word Phase
Physics:
The Teeline word Physics
Picture:
The Teeline word Picture
Piece:
The Teeline word Piece
Place:
The Teeline word Place
Plain:
The Teeline word Plain
Plan:
The Teeline word Plan
Plane:
The Teeline word Plane
Plant:
The Teeline word Plant
Play:
The Teeline word Play
Point:
The Teeline word Point
Pond:
The Teeline word Pond
Port:
The Teeline word Port
Pose:
The Teeline word Pose
Possible:
The Teeline word Possible
Pound:
The Teeline word Pound
Power:
The Teeline word Power
Preparation:
The Teeline word Preparation
Prepare:
The Teeline word Prepare
Press:
The Teeline word Press
Problem:
The Teeline word Problem
Produce:
The Teeline word Produce
Product:
The Teeline word Product
Public:
The Teeline word Public
Pull:
The Teeline word Pull
Purple:
The Teeline word Purple
Purpose:
The Teeline word Purpose
Put:
The Teeline word Put
Question:
The Teeline word Question
Quick:
The Teeline word Quick
Rain:
The Teeline word Rain
Ran:
The Teeline word Ran
Rank:
The Teeline word Rank
Reach:
The Teeline word Reach
Read:
The Teeline word Read
Ready:
The Teeline word Ready
Real:
The Teeline word Real
Recently:
The Teeline word Recently
Record:
The Teeline word Record
Red:
The Teeline word Red
Reference:
The Teeline word Reference
Remember:
The Teeline word Remember
Requirement:
The Teeline word Requirement
Research:
The Teeline word Research
Rest:
The Teeline word Rest
Retort:
The Teeline word Retort
Right:
The Teeline word Right
River:
The Teeline word River
Road:
The Teeline word Road
Rock:
The Teeline word Rock
Room:
The Teeline word Room
Round:
The Teeline word Round
Rule:
The Teeline word Rule
Run:
The Teeline word Run
Run:
The Teeline word Run
Said:
The Teeline word Said
Same:
The Teeline word Same
Saturday:
The Teeline word Saturday
Saw:
The Teeline word Saw
Say:
The Teeline word Say
Scale:
The Teeline word Scale
School:
The Teeline word School
Science:
The Teeline word Science
Scientist:
The Teeline word Scientist
Sea:
The Teeline word Sea
Second:
The Teeline word Second
See:
The Teeline word See
Seem:
The Teeline word Seem
Self:
The Teeline word Self
Semicircle:
The Teeline word Semicircle
Semiconductor:
The Teeline word Semiconductor
Send:
The Teeline word Send
Sent:
The Teeline word Sent
Sentence:
The Teeline word Sentence
September:
The Teeline word September
Serve:
The Teeline word Serve
Set:
The Teeline word Set
Seven:
The Teeline word Seven
Several:
The Teeline word Several
Shall:
The Teeline word Shall
Shape:
The Teeline word Shape
She:
The Teeline word She
Ship:
The Teeline word Ship
Short:
The Teeline word Short
Should:
The Teeline word Should
Show:
The Teeline word Show
Side:
The Teeline word Side
Simple:
The Teeline word Simple
Since:
The Teeline word Since
Sing:
The Teeline word Sing
Sir:
The Teeline word Sir
Sit:
The Teeline word Sit
Six:
The Teeline word Six
Size:
The Teeline word Size
Sleep:
The Teeline word Sleep
Slow:
The Teeline word Slow
Small:
The Teeline word Small (version 1)

or
The Teeline word Small (version 2)
Snow:
The Teeline word Snow
So:
The Teeline word So
Social:
The Teeline word Social
Some:
The Teeline word Some
Something:
The Teeline word Something
Song:
The Teeline word Song
Soon:
The Teeline word Soon
Sound:
The Teeline word Sound
South:
The Teeline word South
Special:
The Teeline word Special
Spell:
The Teeline word Spell
Stand:
The Teeline word Stand
Star:
The Teeline word Star
Start:
The Teeline word Start
State:
The Teeline word State
Stay:
The Teeline word Stay
Steep:
The Teeline word Steep
Step:
The Teeline word Step
Still:
The Teeline word Still
Stood:
The Teeline word Stood
Stop:
The Teeline word Stop
Story:
The Teeline word Story
Street:
The Teeline word Street
Strong:
The Teeline word Strong
Study:
The Teeline word Study
Subconscious:
The Teeline word Subconscious
Success:
The Teeline word Success
Such:
The Teeline word Such
Sun:
The Teeline word Sun
Sunday:
The Teeline word Sunday
Super:
The Teeline word Super
Supermarket:
The Teeline word Supermarket
Supervise:
The Teeline word Supervise
Sure:
The Teeline word Sure
Surface:
The Teeline word Surface (version 1)

or
The Teeline word Surface (version 2)
Survival:
The Teeline word Survival
Suspicious:
The Teeline word Suspicious
Table:
The Teeline word Table
Tail:
The Teeline word Tail
Take:
The Teeline word Take
Talk:
The Teeline word Talk
Tall:
The Teeline word Tall
Teach:
The Teeline word Teach
Teeline:
The Teeline word Teeline
Telephone:
The Teeline word Telephone
Telescope:
The Teeline word Telescope
Tell:
The Teeline word Tell
Temperature:
The Teeline word Temperature
Test:
The Teeline word Test
Than:
The Teeline word Than
Thank:
The Teeline word Thank
That:
The Teeline word That
The:
The Teeline word The
Their:
The Teeline word Their
Them:
The Teeline word Them
Then:
The Teeline word Then
Theory:
The Teeline word Theory
There:
The Teeline word There
Therefore:
The Teeline word Therefore
Thermometer:
The Teeline word Thermometer
These:
The Teeline word These
They:
The Teeline word They
Thing:
The Teeline word Thing
Think:
The Teeline word Think
Thirty:
The Teeline word Thirty
This:
The Teeline word This
Those:
The Teeline word Those
Though:
The Teeline word Though
Thought:
The Teeline word Thought
Thousand:
The Teeline word Thousand (version 1)

or
The Teeline word Thousand (version 2)
Three:
The Teeline word Three
Through:
The Teeline word Through
Thursday:
The Teeline word Thursday
Time:
The Teeline word Time
Tip:
The Teeline word Tip
Tissue:
The Teeline word Tissue
To:
The Teeline word To
Together:
The Teeline word Together
Told:
The Teeline word Told
Tomorrow:
The Teeline word Tomorrow
Too:
The Teeline word Too
Took:
The Teeline word Took
Top:
The Teeline word Top
Toward:
The Teeline word Toward
Town:
The Teeline word Town
Transport:
The Teeline word Transport
Travel:
The Teeline word Travel
Tree:
The Teeline word Tree
True:
The Teeline word True
Try:
The Teeline word Try
Tuesday:
The Teeline word Tuesday
Turn:
The Teeline word Turn
Uncertainty:
The Teeline word Uncertainty
Two:
The Teeline word Two
Under:
The Teeline word Under
Unit:
The Teeline word Unit
Until:
The Teeline word Until
Up:
The Teeline word Up
Us:
The Teeline word Us
Use:
The Teeline word Use
Usual:
The Teeline word Usual
Variable:
The Teeline word Variable
Very:
The Teeline word Very
Voice:
The Teeline word Voice
Volume:
The Teeline word Volume
Vowel:
The Teeline word Vowel
Wait:
The Teeline word Wait
Walk:
The Teeline word Walk
Want:
The Teeline word Want
Wanted:
The Teeline word Wanted
War:
The Teeline word War
Warm:
The Teeline word Warm
Was:
The Teeline word Was
Watch:
The Teeline word Watch
Water:
The Teeline word Water
Way:
The Teeline word Way
We:
The Teeline word We
Weather:
The Teeline word Weather
Wednesday:
The Teeline word Wednesday
Week:
The Teeline word Week
Weight:
The Teeline word Weight
Well:
The Teeline word Well
Went:
The Teeline word Went
Were:
The Teeline word Were
West:
The Teeline word West
What:
The Teeline word What
Wheel:
The Teeline word Wheel
When:
The Teeline word When
Where:
The Teeline word Where
Whether:
The Teeline word Whether
Which:
The Teeline word Which
While:
The Teeline word While
White:
The Teeline word White
Who:
The Teeline word Who
Whole:
The Teeline word Whole
Why:
The Teeline word Why
Will:
The Teeline word Will
Wind:
The Teeline word Wind
Wise:
The Teeline word Wise
With:
The Teeline word With
Within:
The Teeline word Within
Without:
The Teeline word Without
Wonder:
The Teeline word Wonder
Wood:
The Teeline word Wood
Word:
The Teeline word Word
Work:
The Teeline word Work
World:
The Teeline word World
Would:
The Teeline word Would
Write:
The Teeline word Write
Year:
The Teeline word Year
Yes:
The Teeline word Yes
Yesterday:
The Teeline word Yesterday
Yet:
The Teeline word Yet
You:
The Teeline word You
Young:
The Teeline word Young
Your:
The Teeline word Your
Yourself:
The Teeline word Yourself
Zoology:
The Teeline word Zoology

Teeline for the curious: a story of learning things because I can

Why hello everyone! Happy pi day!! This week I’m pleased to introduce you to my latest project: learning Teeline. Teeline is a shorthand method that I set out to learn because… it looks cool? It could possibly be useful for taking notes during lectures? Honestly, because I felt like it.

I have collected all of my notes into a (hopefully) intelligible format, and I thought I’d share them with you!

The alphabet

Teeline vowels and their indicators, consonants, and words that each letter might represent

Note: only use the full vowel for the hard sound, or to represent the words as noted. Otherwise use the indicator.

Joining letters and writing words

This article has a fairly comprehensive overview of the rules for Teeline, but here are the basics:

  1. Join letters into words as they would be in cursive: the second letter starts where the first ends, etc.
  2. Cut out all intermediate vowels. Sntncs shld rd lk ths.
  3. Explicitly indicate vowels if they begin or end a word.
  4. Exclude silent and double letters: right = rt, numb = nm
  5. Write vowels much smaller than consonants.

Hello my name is Addie. They had an accident in a car park. Will you accept an opportunity to join her company? It is a good joke and it made me laugh. Will we see your manager when we go to Greece? He said it was late and we must hurry. Are there many people waiting at the bus stop? I will write you a letter today.

Things to note in the image:

  • Proper nouns (or other capitalized words) have a double-dash underneath them.
  • ‘T’/’D’ basically look the same in the middle or end of words; this doesn’t matter too much because they make a very similar sound and Teeline is partly phonetic.
  • Use abbreviations: opportunity = opr, company = co
  • ‘K’ joins up on the side (rather than the bottom) of tall letters like ‘H’, ‘J’, and ‘P’.
  • Use phonetic spellings: laugh = lf
  • I like to include an ‘S’-shape above a soft ‘C’: Greece = grsc1
  • You can abbreviate ‘people’ to a single ‘P’/’L’ blend.
  • ‘At’ is just an ‘A’ at the ‘T’ position.
  • ‘S’ is written inside of ‘B’.
  • ‘T’ and ‘D’ are dis-joined from ‘R’: ‘T’ above the ‘R’ and ‘D’ below it. They are also dis-joined from each other, with ‘T’ written above the previous letter and ‘D’ below it.

Avoiding awkward shapes

How to use the upward 'L', letter blends, and the following suffixes: y th sh shl ship ch ever able ible nce tion cion ment ank ink onk unk ang ing ong ung

Also note that you can use ‘-XNK’ to represent ‘-THXNK’ and similarly ‘-XNG’ to represent ‘-THXNG.’

Edit 24-Apr-2018: I have started curating my OWN Teeline dictionary. I highly recommend checking it out! If there’s a word you want to find but can’t, leave a comment. I’d be happy to add it. 😀

When in doubt, I recommend checking this Teeline dictionary for the preferred “spelling.”

Common Word Groupings

As you speed up and get better at Teeline, you’ll notice certain words often come together. You can combine these into a single group.2 These are the groups I use the most, but you can find a comprehensive list of word groupings in this book.

Groupings including the words: the have would about at as well as "wh" words

I’ve also included ‘WH’3 words because I found it very easy to mix those up. I often interchange ‘what’ and ‘with’ and am working on fixing that.

Strategies for learning Teeline

Don’t try to learn everything all at once. Start by drilling the alphabet until you’ve got that down pat. Then just start linking words together and see how that goes. I would start each morning by reading my previous day’s work, circling and fixing mistakes, and seeing what was difficult to read and why. Then I’d transcribe a new passage to be reviewed the next day.

I noticed pretty quickly what letter combinations were very difficult to write, so I worked blends into my shorthand very quickly. ‘TR’ and ‘DR’ were some of the best. I thought it would be hard to distinguish them from the non-blended characters, but I actually found it quite easy. It makes it soooo much easier to write, as well.

Certain suffixes are also terribly awkward. ‘NG’ is one of the most awkward character combinations ever. I was super excited to figure out the ‘-XNG’ suffix set. I tried to let other suffixes come naturally.

If I ever found myself thinking “there has to be a better way to write this word,” then I would look it up in the dictionary, and usually there was, indeed, a better way to write it. My point is that rather than try to memorize all these rules, I let my natural curiosity provide the impetus for learning each new rule at my own pace.

Currently I’m mostly focused on word groupings. This is particularly challenging for me because I naturally want each group to be one word. I’m just taking it one day at a time, trying to use groupings as they make sense to me. I’m sure I’ll evolve more and more confidence here as I practice more.4

This is about the level of Teeline I’m at right now:

Here was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid. He was fat and bunchy, as a rabbit should be; his coat was spotted brown and white, he had real thread whiskers, and his ears were lined with pink sateen. On Christmas morning, when he sat wedged in the top of the Boy's stocking, with a sprig of holly between his paws, the effect was charming.

The text says:

Here was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid. He was fat and bunchy, as a rabbit should be; his coat was spotted brown and white, he had real thread whiskers, and his ears were lined with5 pink sateen.6 On Christmas morning, when he sat wedged in the top of the Boy’s stocking, with7 a sprig of holly between his paws, the effect was charming.

A silhouetted scale with two baskets is depicted. The leftmost basket is lower and contains the Python logo: blue and yellow intertwined snakes. The right basket is higher and contains the C logo, a light blue letter 'C'.

Why Python is a social justice programming language

It’s no secret that I like Python. A lot. It is a powerful object-oriented language that can handle linear algebra, graphics, complex statistics, and basically anything else you might want to throw at it. As far as programming languages go, it’s one of the easiest to learn.

https://xkcd.com/353/

The popular webcomic xkcd.com illustrates (with some hyperbole) how easy it is to use Python.

These two features (power and ease) are what make it a great social justice language. Allow me to elaborate.

A little backstory

You probably know that women and under-represented minorities (URMs) are, well, under-represented in science. They are especially under-represented in computer science.8

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Where other STEM fields have seen a lot of success in gender equity, computer science has seen a DECREASE. Source: NPR.org

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URMs in the Tech Sector vs. US Economy
Source: Mother Jones

Barriers into computer science

Okay, so. This is a problem. Why?

Maria Klawe looked at introductory computer science courses in college campuses, and identified several barriers to women’s access to computer science:2

  • Lack of formal education early on
  • Feeling overwhelmed in introductory courses
  • Feeling disconnected from the content
    • The image of geeky, unpopular boys dominates
    • Bored during class

Let’s look at each of these issues and see why Python is a good fit to counter them.

Lack of formal education early on

The problem: Women and URMs often don’t take computer science courses in high school. Oftentimes this is because they’re unavailable: only 49% of African Americans and 53% of Latinxs3 attend schools with computer science classes.

The Python solution: We need to increase the availability of free coding resources. Not only that, but those resources need to be friendly to use. Python is perfect for someone who has never coded before: it uses English words to convey its meaning. No archaic and indecipherable curly braces here. The whitespace layout is visually appealing and easy to picture. For these reasons, Python and Lua are probably the most user-friendly languages.

Why am I not recommending Lua, then? Because it’s not as powerful, and that means it is not used in most professional settings.4 Python is powerful. If you learn Python, you have learned a programming language that you can take with you through the rest of your career. If URMs start learning Python, they will have a much more solid coding foundation moving onward.

Feeling overwhelmed in introductory courses

I think everyone knows the feeling of taking a class that’s maybe a bit… over your head? And on top of that, you have the stinky know-it-all in the corner whose hand constantly shoots up and has all of the answers. Why is it SO EASY for that one person? Maybe you’re not cut out for this, and should just quit… I’ve been there. It’s a very human experience.

The truth about that know-it-all, though, is that they probably have been coding at home for a long time. Klawe’s solution was to separate those who have had previous coding experience from those who do not. That’s, unfortunately, a bit beyond even Python’s capabilities5.

What is the Pythonic solution to this problem? Teach Python in introductory courses. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, Python is very easy to learn compared to, say, Java or C. When learning code from scratch, the most important thing is that you understand the structure and logic of algorithms. Once you understand the underlying structure, then picking up another language is much easier. Most languages have a fairly complicated syntax,6 but the syntax isn’t the interesting part about learning to code– writing code is! When a new coder sees words that they can read the concepts they’re working with, they are much more likely to continue coding.

Feeling disconnected from the content

Again, from Klawe: there’s a stereotype of a “computer scientist” being a socially inept white male. Indeed, one study by Cheryan et. al. showed that hanging pictures of Star Trek can turn women off of science. If coding turns you into a social reject, or worse– was never “meant” for someone of your skin tone or gender identity (SHUDDER), wouldn’t you feel pressure away from the field?

The Python solution: Make it easy to adapt your code for real-life applications. Python uses package imports in a very intuitive fashion (see the xkcd comic above). As you’d expect, there are python packages for science, linear algebra, and plotting. There are also packages that new programmers would find incredibly appealing: game libraries, medical image processing, interactive notebooks, web scraping capabilities, and much much more.

Python is engaging in ways that other languages are not, and it is perfect for jump-starting the new computer scientist into the world of powerful, object-oriented programming.

In Summary- Python is a social justice programming language

Python’s clear English-based syntax is easy to learn and intuitive compared to other programming languages. This makes it more accessible to those who don’t have a formal computer science background or who find themselves in a position requiring self-learning.

The sheer variety of packages that Python supports keep the language dynamic and interesting– there’s something for everyone. This helps to keep the new computer scientist engaged so they continue to learn more. They can pick up coding projects that matter to them and to their communities.

Python’s vast package library and object-oriented base keep it in the running for powerful coding languages. It is used in industries (especially, and I can attest to this, in academia within the physical sciences) worldwide. Learning Python is a useful skill that the new computer scientist will use throughout their career.

Am I saying Python is always the correct choice for programming? No, of course not. Nothing beats FORTRAN’s matrix algebra. The stability, portability, and efficiency of C cannot be denied. There will always be an optimal language for your current project. For me, my desire to educate others about the wonders of computer science means that Python will be my go-to language, because as far as initiating badass new scientists is concerned, nothing is better.

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