What Version Should I Buy?

I was wondering, which vesion of Diamond Jubilee or Centennial should I buy. I can only find the college version of Centennial, and I am a beginner, and there are so many versions of Diamond Jubille, I do not know where to start. I was thinking, If I choose Diamond Jubilee, should I start with…

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Simplified: “intendant” question

I’m writing a little blurb on stroke precedence in Gregg (how you should write “tn” first if there’s a choice between that and “nt” for example), and I wanted to use the word “intendant” as an example. The Anniversary dictionary logically illustrates my point and has n-tn-tn. Unfortunately, the Simplified dictionary acts like the d…

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Sweet’s Current Orthographic PDF Available

Finished creating a pdf of Henry Sweet’s “Current Orthographic Shorthand”. Haven’t found a place to post it publicly yet, but I can email it to anyone who’s interested and has 14MB of inbox space. (And if that doesn’t narrow it down), I’ll warn that the edition I scanned and set was a degraded microform printing…

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800 Members—Yehaw!

To everyone who, when you should be working on your TPS reports, takes measureless time to trudge through pages of text, gives advice to beginners, supports students and associates with other users of Gregg: thank you! The Gregg Group is now 800 members strong.  Our discussion boards contain a total of 5,846 messages (5,847 now).  That’s an average…

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1916 – Modifying Angles in Phrasing

Moved from Anything Goes section: (by johnsapp for everyone)   Reply Recommend Delete    Message 1 of 4 in Discussion  From: JRGAnniversary  (Original Message) Sent: 5/20/2007 1:14 PM This morning I was practicing the word lists in Chapter 12 of the 1916 Manual then turned to the 1917 Speed Studies for more practice and was somewhat surprised to…

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Another Newbie

Hi everyone! I’m properly introducing myself. I’ve been a member for about three weeks now. I stumbled upon this group after finding the gregg.angelfishy site. I never knew that Shorthand had so much versions! I first got interested in shorthand in ’04 and when I tried to research it, as you can imagine there wasn’t…

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New Starter – Anniversary or Simplified?

Hi all, I wonder if someone could advise me on which version of Gregg to go for.  In my work, I am required to interview people, then type up a report of the interview later.  Generally, the interviewees are v.intelligent and speak quickly.  I am not required to give a verbatim record, but would like to be…

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Shorthand Digital Library

I found out by accident that the Rider University library is digitizing some specimens from the Louis Leslie collection of shorthand materials.  As a sneak peak, here is the first page of one of them: Gregghand.   To access the collection, click here:  http://leto.rider.edu/special_collections/shorthand/ Maybe we could ask them to digitize some of their books! (by…

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The “What the heck is that outline” thread

I thought it’d be a good idea to have a place for learners to post their SOSes about outlines they just can’t figure out, rather than having a random outcropping of threads here and there. All editions welcome! Please include book, page, and sentence to help us figure out where to look 🙂 I have…

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