The Gregg Group was founded 22 May 2004, prompted by the lack of online shorthand resources. As the primary use for shorthand — business and legal recording — has waned in recent decades, we generally acclaim the skill as a hobby or personal tool. The purpose of the group is to promote the use of Gregg systems of shorthand by providing advice to beginners, support for students, and an association of users of this efficient, attractive, and enjoyable method of writing.
Hi everyone. I received a book in an interlibrary loan from Montana named “Gregg Computer Shorthand For Shorthand Writers”. It was printed way back in 1988 and was supposed to have a floppy with the program on it. I called the library in Montana but they only had the book. Have any of you heard…
I just heard that Steve Rosen, the man who developed AlphaHand, passed away earlier this month. I had the pleasure of meeting him a few years ago. He taught Business Education at NYU (or was it Columbia?) for a very long time before retiring in the early 1990s, I believe. The last time I spoke…
I have a box set called Gregg Shorthand Individual Progress Method (Diamond Jubilee Series) which was published by McGraw Hill in 1972. It came with two spiral-bound books (a theory presentation book and a reinforcement book for practicing what you learned in the first book), plus a Self-Check notepad and a “Gregg Official Shorthand Notebook”. …
I thought this might be of interest to you all. What appears to be the original, 1893 version of Gregg Shorthand is for sale on ebay. To wit: http://snipurl.com/och4 (by georgeamberson1 for everyone)
Hello, all. I was the winner on E-Bay of a copy of “The Basic Principles of Gregg Shorthand”, copyright 1923. It’s in pristine shape (good thing, because it was a little pricey–but this title is hard to find!). Fun thing is, it’s autographed by Dr. Gregg inside the front cover, with his distinctive signature, plus…
As you can guess by my name, I’m a leftie. I find writing Gregg shorthand to be particularly challenging. I need to turn my paper almost completely sideways (counter-clockwise) in order to get the right slant and flow, and even then my m’s and n’s aren’t straight lines because I’m pushing the pen up the page instead…
Is anybody aware of some good reading material for those that are trying to learn Diamond Jubilee? The exercises in the books are exceedingly lame. I can read most of the Fables book from the angelfishy site, but it is written in Anniversary edition. Thanks, Lee (by leeroylee for everyone)
I crafted some of the resources from http://gregg.angelfishy.net into a quick reference PDF — thought some of you here might be interested in it. It includes the 147ish DJS brief forms, and a key to the Gregg Alphabet. There’s a full page version of it, as well as a “4-up” version that you can cut…
Can anyone out there tell me what the typical shorthand class was like in high school? What did the students do each period? I would like to try to emulate that in my self-study if I knew what to do, in what order, for how long, etc. Thanks 🙂 ~ Kim (by leftiekim for everyone)
Hi. I’m new to this forum so please forgive me if this question has already been answered. Since I can’t seem to find any commercially available dictation audios, I thought I would make my own. I’m a beginner so I wanted to start out slow (40 wpm or so) and go up from there as…