**Dictionary of Characterie**
Core to Characterie is a collection of particle and characterical words which form the foundation of the writing system. This provides a dictionary from the english words to the drawn symbols.
# Particles
Particles are unique symbols assigned to common words, often those that would never otherwise appear in the characterical table (there is no such thing as a synonym or antonym for words like "the" or "of"). This are most often things like pronouns, prepositions, articles, conjunctions, but also some common phrases and a small smattering of religious terms.
     
     
     
     
     
 
# Characterical Words
The characterical words are the backbone of Characterie. Every word you write will be one of either a synonym, antonym, or type of one of these words.
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**Note for Historians**
If you are learning Characterie for the purposes of reading historical texts, be aware that the book, as it survives today, is not self-consistent. In particular *The Characterie Table* contains duplicated word, missing symbols, and words that appear to have no meaning. Moreover, if compared with *A Table of English Words* in the next section, we see that these two provide different conflicting lists of characterical words.
I originally attempted to unify them, matching the *The Characterie Table* as much as is possible while being self consistent, while additionally adding words that were indicated to be characterical from the *Table of English Words* if it did not cause a conflict with any existing term, however I am instead able to benefit from similar work done by contemporary practicioners.
In particular, I have compared my list own with the list of words from Peter Bales' *Brachygraphy* (1590 for the first edition which I have used). This system is essentially a duplicate of Characterie with the symbols removed opting instead for annotating letters of the standard latin alphabet (reproduced [here]() along with a comparison to the original Characterie table). I found that essentially all of the of the updates that I would want to make are already reflected in that work, and very essentially nothing else.
Thus, to match the period usage of these systems as much as possible, I have indeed adopted Bales' list of characterical words as being canonical, as it appears to be nearly perfectly in alignment with the original work of Bright, but corrected to be self-consistent.
This does offer in interesting possibility for historians attempting to differentiate texts recorded in Characterie from other systems. As Bright's single edition of his manual contains ambiguities and inconsistencies not present in other systems, there are likely unique rare transcription errors that only happen in Characterie, but not in later systems like Brachygraphy. For the purposes on learning the system, I have fixed them. If you are looking for historical analysis, you likely will need to embrace them by referencing the original table.
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