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.
I ordered Dictation for Beginners, by Edith Bisbee, through abebooks. I am delighted to find it is a perfectly fitting, supplementary book to use with the 1929 Manual. It follows the lessons, giving examples that include the vocabulary of the Manual, and of Speed Studies. It was published in 1930 by The Gregg Publishing Company….
Hey everyone! My name is Charlie, and I’m a new member of this blog. I recently took up trying to learn shorthand as a way to be able to put down my thoughts faster when I don’t have a keyboard accessible. My Nonie used to write in shorthand a lot, and I was always fascinated…
Since I took up pre-anniversary Gregg shorthand a couple months ago, I have been using it in my daily life instead of longhand. At the moment, I have not done much dictation, since I have not put much emphasis on speed yet, only correctness of theory, but have tested my ability to take dictation, and…
Posted at the digital library of the University of North Texas. “A Comparison of Methods in Teaching Shorthand”, Master’s Thesis, by Gladys Pauline Bellows, 1949 The purpose of this problem is to make a comparative study of methods in teaching Gregg shorthand. The problem is to compare the methods of approach, procedures, and techniques used,…
There are many results from this search. Here is the link. Here is one of the entries: Stenographers! Washington Needs You!. It is a drawing of a woman at an office desk, and a silhouette of a WWI soldier in front of her. Here is a photograph of Charles Swem, when he worked for President Wilson….
When I first attempted to write Gregg shorthand outlines, I realized I didn’t have the same longhand proportions and principles in my 1950s Zaner-Bloser cursive as the business longhand which gave the movement and form Dr. Gregg used in the outlines. In the book on penmanship which he wrote, with Mary Champion, Dr. Gregg states:…
I learned on this blog the basics of how Simplified was created and how Leslie was responsible. Here’s a snippet by way of summary by Carlos from a 8/11/2017 post: (…At the time of his death in 1948, he [J.R. Gregg] was working with Mr. Clyde Blanchard on a revised new manual, because he really…
This short story of loss, grief, and compassion is a popular Buddhist tale. I wrote for the blog in Centennial Gregg. Attachment: the-mustard-seed.pdf
Dr. Victor Francis Hess was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1936 for his discovery of the cosmic rays, the high-energy radiation originating outside of the Solar System that strikes the Earth’s atmosphere. In this interesting essay written in 1946, Dr. Hess explains how his religious beliefs are in harmony with science. I wrote…
This entertaining story was adapted from the book The Cow-tail Switch: And Other West African Stories by American anthropologists and folklorists Harold Courlander and George Herzog, and was written by yours truly in Simplified Gregg for the blog. Attachment: talk-a-tale-from-africa.pdf