FINAL HOOKS 3 - HALVING

Finally hooked strokes are halved to add a following T or D sound.

The T or D sound is spoken after the N Hook sound, and the outline is the same, whether it is -NT or -ND that is being added:

N Hook
 

pain paint/pained spin spent/spend bond band/banned
 

tent/tend dent stand stunt* stint

* See below for "stunned, stoned, stained"
 

chained joint/joined count account kind

second gained kindly country secondly
 

round surround burnt/burned turned returned

went/wend wind* want/wand hint hunt behind    * Noun: air
 

find found/fount event thinned land lent/lend leaned

shined* shunt/shunned earned errand/errant mind amount anoint

* The past tense of "shine" when used with an object: "I shined my shoes." Without an object the past tense is "shone": "The sun shone all day."

painting pounding bonding tending

standing counting granting finding

minding amounting demanding

Use Dot Ing where stroke Ing cannot join:

renting parenting rounding surroundings wanting

slanting shunting anointing landing landings

F/V Hook

The T or D sound is spoken after the F/V Hook sound and the outline is the same, whether it is -FT or -VD that is being added:

puffed paved proved braved tuft dived
 

daft chafed achieved caved gift graft

rift served reserved waved/waived halved

drafting drifting

Use Dot Ing where stroke Ing cannot join:

crafting grafting gifting rafting wafting

Derivatives halve the last stroke:
 

plant planted, blunt blunted, blend blended

tint tinted, taint tainted, attend attended

dent dented, drift  drifted, respond responded

extend extended, expand expanded

Change to stroke N F or V where the hook cannot be written in the middle:

account accounted, discount discounted, grant granted,

mint minted, mind minded mindful

land landed, faint fainted, flint flinty

rent rented, want wanted, waft wafted

Where there are two hooks on the same side, and another stroke follows, the hooked stroke tends to become curved, so in some derivatives the hook is changed to stroke N to help keep the stroke straight:
 

print printed, sprint sprinted, brand branded

If there is a vowel before the T or D, halving is not used:
 

punnet Bennett tonight donate donut granite

winnowed surfeit infinite minute minute

Note these where the Stee Loop cannot join:

kindest grandest but roundest in full

If there is a final vowel, strokes are used, so the vowel sign can be written in. This also lets you know that there is a final vowel in the word, when vowel signs are being omitted:
 

plenty pointy bendy dainty window windy

Special outlines:

downright (swerve) swerved* (dwarf) dwarfed**

* Halving would not be not clear   ** Halving not possible

These derivatives retain the original form:
 

stun stunned, stone stoned, stain stained

Compare: stand stunt stint

Mnemonic for Hooks
 

Clockwise: bRaiN, cRaNe

Anticlockwise: bLuFF, gLoVe

Short Forms
 

great guard gold cannot gentleman* gentlemen*

* Position is according to last vowel, in order to differentiate

Derivatives:

greater greatest* golden    * Choice of outlines

Distinguishing Outlines
 

greatly gradually, giant agent agency

island Holland Highland (Scotland*)

* Normal outline, downward L to continue the motion of the circle

SUMMARY

• On a finally hooked stroke, the T or D of the halving is spoken last: pain paint

• Stroke N may be necessary for past tense: grant granted

• Stroke N medially to avoid tendency to curve the stroke: printed

• If there is a vowel before the T or D, use full strokes: paint punnet

EXTRA VOCABULARY

pen pent/penned happened point appoint disappoint

pound sprained/spraint bent/bend bind bound binned

brunt tanned taunt tuned attendance

strained stent standard understand resident president precedent

accident accidental accidentally

incident incidental incidentally

chant urgent merchant regent sergeant

canned/cant* kind scant/scanned skint/skinned craned

*Noun

crowned crooned grind grand ground

cleaned gland gleaned inclined reclined

declined unkind reckoned beckoned

rant/Rand rent/rend rained/reigned currant current

parent apparent torrent deterrent

waned wound* wound** weaned

* Past tense of verb wind, to coil **Noun: injury

faint/feigned refined lengthened

assent/ascent/ascend assenting/ascending assigned zoned manned mooned

moment arrangement renowned stagnant

pregnant repugnant indignant

extend expand respond extending expanding responding

approved bluffed rebuffed achieved chuffed

heft huffed halved heaved behaved

raft roughed surfed observed bereaved bereft

cuffed craved gloved waft draft/draught draughtsman* craftsman*

* "draughtswoman, craftswoman" are covered in Lesson 44 Medial W

lined loaned lint lowland silent

amend amended demand demanded

remind reminded, mint minted

meant mental parent parented parental

second seconded glint glinted

hunt hunted, raft rafted

anoint anointed, vent vented, ascend/ascent/assent ascended

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