Handwriting trouble

The biggest trouble I seem to have with my handwriting is the slant, or I should say, lack of slant. my handwriting has always been vertical in cursive and my shorthand tends to be the same. This makes some of the letters sort of pile up on each other. I was wondering if anyone else has…

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‘Keepsake’ in Simplified

Hi folks- I’m wondering how I would write the word keepsake in Simplified. If I use a left-S, as in keeps, then the sake part of the word doesn’t follow the general rules about circles being formed on the outside of angles. But if I use a comma-S, as in the word sake on its…

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Question about -lity and -rity

There’s a matter that’s been bothering me for some time. It concerns -lity and -rity. In all the series of Gregg shorthand that I know a bit about, -lity is also used for -lty; e.g. admiralty, faculty, fealty, loyalty, penalty. But -rity seems never to be used for -rty; e.g. liberty, poverty, property, puberty. Regularity…

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Reversed vowel for R not in first edition

I use simplified mainly with some DJ mixed in, but was interested in the older systems and while looking up the old manuals I noticed the first edition 1888 did not even mention the reversed vowels (a and e) as an option. In the 2nd and 3rd editions it was briefly mentioned only as an…

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To Build a Fire (1902)

  This story by American author Jack London was published in two different versions in 1902 and 1908. The 1908 version is a popular classic, however, the 1902 version is less known. I wrote the 1902 version in Centennial for the blog. Attachment: to-build-a-fire-1902.pdf

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The Donner Party

  On April of 1846, nine wagons left Illinois on a 2500-mile journey to California, in what would become one of the greatest tragedies in the history of westward migration. The originator of this group, James Frazier Reed (pictured above with his wife Margret), along with 8 other families, were eager to build a greater…

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Spaceman Glenn

This is an excerpt from an article that appeared in the March 2, 1962 issue of Time Magazine about John Glenn’s first orbit in space that I wrote in Simplified Gregg for the blog. Attachment: spaceman-glenn.pdf

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