The Word Wood

The current assignment I’m studying in my Simplified Functional Manual are the vowel sounds: w, sw, wh. One of the words in my reading lesson is the word “wood”. The word WOOD Usually when I come across a new word when I study it I sound the strokes out loud. But, I really don’t understand…

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Google Docs Issue

I’m having an issue with Google Docs/Drive as the documents for this site have lost their sharing settings. I’m working with Google to solve the issue. In the meantime, if you cannot access a document, hang in there or let me know. Documents posted in December do not have that problem. I will let you…

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Location, location, location!

I’ve had this idea brewing for a while, so here goes: As I said in a prior post, Bruce Ford (another member who I haven’t seen in this site since we moved) and I found out we live quite close together.  So we had dinner and have gotten together every so often since then Anyone else…

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The Leech Cloth (fiction)

This is something fictional I wrote more than a year ago for a site where we share ideas for tabletop RPGs. I copied a piece of it yesterday, the most shorthand I’ve done in one sitting for months. I had to keep the dictionary and my personal reference handy throughout. Even so, I’m pretty sure…

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The Disjoined Prefixes and Suffixes

This article that appeared in the December 1933 issue of The Gregg Writer discusses the disjoined prefixes and suffixes. While the actual prefixes and suffixes refer to Anniversary, the technique and study material can be easily adapted to other series of Gregg. As a bonus, it contains outlines of proper names of people in the…

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Progress Report?

I’m just curious if there are any people that are either studying, reviewing, or maybe struggling with the basic manual, no matter which series. If anyone wants to share which lesson are you right now, what has been your progress, or what is keeping you from finishing the book, I would welcome that information as…

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An example of my penmanship

Obviously I need some practice, but this is what I have right now. I’m on assignment 6, ch 1. I have trouble forming certain letter combinations, and I’m sorry but I don’t have time to type out what it’s supposed to say right now. 🙁

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The Alphabetic Charts

This article that appeared in the December 1910 issue of The Gregg Writer discusses one of the ways of reviewing Gregg Shorthand: by constructing alphabetic charts. It is a great way of summarizing the major principles of the system. While the chart in this case applies to Pre-Anniversary, it can be adapted to all series…

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