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.
A few months ago I saw a book titled Syllabic Writing for sale online. The description was sparse: the listing only gave the title, said it was about shorthand and was published in 1937. I bought it assuming it would be a description of some obscure and exotic shorthand system based on syllables. It’s actually…
I was just perusing eBay and saw this book – A Refresher Course in Gregg Shorthand” by John Robert Gregg offered for sale. I am not going to buy it – they are asking $40. But I’m curious. I had not seen this book before. It says that it is copyright 1942 and printed in…
I have chosen Anniversary as my version to learn !!! Whew… that decision is out of the way. Please give me some advice for studying from the Functional Method books. I remember…. from my brief start 2 years ago…. that there is no writing of shorthand until Assignment 22…. just reading. And I know that…
I joined this site in mid-2013 and was amazed at the incredible amount of information about Gregg Shorthand that Carlos and others have provided here. After reading all of the archived posts and learning about the different versions of Gregg Shorthand… and… learning about all of the available books and everyone’s recommendations about what version…
I happened to read that she was a trained secretary who took shorthand much faster than her personal assistant. Apparently, she never went to meetings with studio executives without her steno pad. Thought that was a neat little factoid. Happy Friday!
I don’t know if this has been posted here before, but we found these old dictation recordings on the Internet Archive website. They even give the wpm. Lots of practice material here. https://archive.org/details/audio?&and[]=dictation%20WPM
Hello guys I love this site. Not sure how to post, but I wanted this to appear under the new members bit. I have never used a site like this. I live in the UK. I learned Pitman shorthand in the ’80’s. I taught Teeline in 2009. I have always wanted to learn Greggs. I…
View of inner pen pocket and clear pocket I don’t know if you do product reviews here, but I recently came across a steno pad holder made by Tactical Notebook Covers that works so well with my shorthand note-taking endeavors that I just had to share (by the way, I have no affiliation with this…
This vocabulary chart appeared in the February 1922 issue of The Gregg Writer. Attachment: an-expedient-in-vocabulary-study.pdf
The following chart of Pre-Anniversary (1916) wordsigns appeared in the January 1922 issue of The Gregg Writer. Attachment: a-wordsign-chart.jpg