A visitor to Omniglot sent me these images asking about these mysterious symbols which appear on a map of Lake Monomonac which was found in the attic of a house near the lake. Can any of you recognise and/or decipher them?

They look like some form of shorthand to me – possibly Gregg – but I can’t make any sense of them.

Here’s a transcription of the shorthand, which seems to be the American Benn Pitman version from the mid 19th century:

(1) Surveyed by one of the members of the Monomonack sporting club. The bearings were taken with a pocket compass and // distances obtained by counting the steps
(2) as measured on the shore at high water mark
(3) including the islands

Provided by Beryl Pratt, author of www.long-live-pitmans-shorthand.org.uk

A visitor to Omniglot would like to know whether anyone knows the name of the painting or can deciper the text on the stone, which is in Old Cyrillic.

Here’s a possible transliteration of the text:

kakъ prjamu ěxati
živu izdravęti
??? puti
ni prob?
ni proxožel
ni posъl etnol

This image was sent in by a visitor to Omniglot who would like to know if anybody knows what writing system and language it’s in.

The text appears within a Danish hymn book published in 1879.

It looks a bit like cursive Hebrew to me, though appears to be written from left to right.

[Update] Here’s the full text:

This stamp was sent in by a visitor to Omniglot who would like to know whether anybody identify and decipher the writing on it.

Can anyone decipher the writing on this image, which was sent in by a visitor to Omniglot.

It looks like Hebrew to me.

Can anybody decipher the inscriptions below? The image was sent in by a visitor to Omniglot and comes from an old Turkish book. More images can be seen here.