Deseret Alphabet & George D. Watt

 I just finished reading a biography about George D. Watt, who was a Pitman scribe to the Mormon prophet, Brigham Young, for 30 years during the mid 1800’s.  The biography is available in print as well as in .pdf format for free on the University of Utah website here.  It was fascinating– how often do…

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Shorthand Speed Dictation – Brief Forms

The ability to write brief forms automatically and fast is one of the ingredients in improving your shorthand speed. To that effect, I recreated the following drill that appeared in an old Gregg recording. The sound files below contain all of the brief forms for all Gregg Shorthand series, dictated in alphabetical order at 100…

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