Friday, December 14, 2012

The Court Reporter's Reference of Commonly Used Words and Phrases

Another good court reporting reference:






















The Court Reporter's Reference of Commonly Used Words and Phrases 

It has the 5,000 most frequently used words and 200 commonly used phrases are listed alphabetically and by frequency.   300 commonly used legal words and phrases, and 425 commonly used phrases heard in the court room or depositions. 625 commonly used medical words and phrases. The 300 most commonly used male first names, female first names, and 1,000 most common last names used in the United States.

You can get a 10% off by going to the publisher's website for the book (click here) and using discount code: RW2VGPBU.

UPDATE: (April 2014):
An expanded second edition of this book has been published (click here).

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

The Court Reporter's Reference of Realtime Conflicts

An excellent resource for realtime conflicts is:















The Court Reporter's Reference of Realtime Conflicts 

It has about 2,600 prefixes, words, word parts, or suffixes that may form homonym (by, bye, buy), stenonym ("to the" and "tot"), and word-boundary conflicts ("sent review" and "sentry view").  Definitely the most extensive list of realtime conflict out there.

You can get a 10% off by going to the publisher's website for the book (click here) and using discount code: RW2VGPBU.


UPDATE: (April 2014):
Looks like an expanded Second Edition of this book has been published (click here).