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.
Hello, Is anyone here familiar with the copyright and possibly the trademark status of Gregg shorthand? I know that McGraw Hill used to have a whole Gregg division to manage all Gregg-related manuals. How free are we today to: – publicly talk about the Gregg method and describe its rules and principles at length (disclosure…
I just finished scanning and uploaded Mark I. Markett’s Word and Sentence Drills for Gregg Shorthand (Anniversary Edition). It’s a useful book for lists of related words and sentences designed to reinforce specific parts of Gregg theory and refers to the Manual with which it should obviously be used in conjunction. There was a version…
In Anniversary-Simplified (?)… Welp, this is what happens when you wake up in the middle of the night with a headache, the wind is howling, and you can’t fall back asleep. You start composing shorthand letters in your head. Transcript (hopefully accurate) at the bottom, to help decipher any silly mistakes or bad penmanship. Sorry…
Every so often, I want to mark the difference. It’s not really often (about as often as I want to mark vowels), but just often enough I’d like something. Thanks!
I recently scanned and just uploaded to archive.org Gregg Speed Building. It corresponds with the Anniversary manual which it refers to often by paragraph number, so you will want to have that handy as well. My understanding is that this was often the next text after one completed Gregg Speed Studies. It’s well worth a…
Hello, In just one day I’ve come across two words that are written differently in the French DJS manual and in the French DJS dictionary. The words are vociférer, written without the i in the manual (p. 221), but with the i in the dictionary, and original, again without the 2nd i in the manual…
Hello, some quotes from James Baldwin, famous American writer. Here are the original versions in English: You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you. Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of…
Hello, a short poem from an author of the 16th century, Marie de France: As it is poetry, so quite difficult, I will put the transcript (but I think it spoils the fun… if there’s any): D’eux deux il était ainsi Comme du chèvre-feuille était Qui au coudrier se prenait. Quand il s’est enlacé et…
This is a portion of a letter written in 1949 from one sister to another the day after the recipient of the letter gave birth to a little girl. This cropped portion is at the end of a long section addressing childbirth, breastfeeding, etc. I am having trouble translating the two outlines underlined in blue….
Hi all, I have a question about which spelling you use when you write some words that have different pronunciations. English is my second language and mostly learn correct pronunciations from watching stuff. Sometimes several words would have different pronunciations from different speakers (even if native). I have encountered quite a few in Gregg, that,…