You’d think I’d learn

If using AbeBooks, always contact the seller and confirm the exact and full book title. Gregg Shorthand Manual Simplified, Teachers Handbook is not the same as Gregg Shorthand Manual Simplified, Home Study Edition (The Home Study Edition is a paperback, 1956, plates by C Radar. Content is similar to the regular manual, with 70 chapters,…

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Brief Form for “Employ”

I was wondering why there isn’t a Brief Form for the word “employ”. I would have thought that it would rate high on a list of most commonly used words, especially for a shorthand writer in the business world. (Also, I particularly dislike the fully written out forms of “employee” and “employees”; they look as…

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ASCII Gregg?

I remember posting on here way back about a more standardized mapping of Gregg shorthand strokes to ASCII characters. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost the content of that particular website, and I don’t think I have it on my hard drive. Would anyone happen to have a copy of it lying around? I don’t…

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Gregg Shorthand New Era?

I’m back!! 🙂 Sorry I was away for so long. I kinda forgot some parts of shorthand now (except for when I draw outlines in the air when they come to mind). But, I’m back. If you remember, I was writing a program to convert text to shorthand. I was convinced that I wasn’t doing…

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“accident” in Diamond Jubilee

I just happened to notice in “Speed Building for Colleges, Diamond Jubilee Series”, 1966, on page 473 the outline for the word “accident” is given as a-s.  Have I missed something?  That isn’t a DJS brief form, and it doesn’t appear in the DJS dictionary.  The book doesn’t give any explanation that I can find,…

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Questions about the earliest Manuals

First question: Dr Gregg’s the first version of his shorthand (1888) was in two parts and in separate pamphlets: “The Phonetic Handwriting” “The Reporter’s Handbook”. The second version (1893) was also in two parts and pamphlets: “The Elements” “The Reporting Style”. I have seen PDF copies of these except for “The Reporter’s Handbook”. I wanted…

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Help Wanted

I have received a request via e-mail from a current Gregg student who wants help. She is taking a class online, but she’s having a hard time. Below is her email: “I am taking a Gregg Shorthand class online, but I am getting lost trying to understand how to translate the symbols. I was wondering…

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Shorthand Examination Paper – Summer 1950

I have just received copies of the UK versions of the 1916 Manual (“Victory Edition”, no date of publication) and the Anniversary Manual (reprint 1949). The latter came with a “Royal Society of Arts Examinations” paper, dated 1950. This is a single sheet, written in shorthand, one side in Gregg (Anniversary) and the other side…

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An Experimental Study of Two Shorthand Systems

(PDF File) This 1937 thesis describes an experiment in which Gregg shorthand learners and Pitman shorthand students were carefully tested to compare how quickly the two systems can be learned. Many of the Gregg students achieved proficiency and were offered jobs before the experiment concluded. The Pitman students did not do so well, and that’s…

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