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, I’m going over the Senecal disjointed prefixes that I could include in my DJS, and there are a lot of really interesting ones, except some give rise to homographs for a number of words, some being rather frequent. I’ve noticed: -For disjointed D (déter-, détr-) : détremper – détromper (and all their conjugated forms)…
Hello, I’m slowly working towards introducing some Senecal Rules into my DJS, and I’m a bit confused about the dot which stands for ant/issant (para. 54 of the Senecal manual), when it comes to “ayant” (with the yod). The word “ayant” itself is written e-circle + left-yod + dot, however other words such as “envoyant”,…
From the 1960’s. Motivation to exercise after Thanksgiving dinner (or any other time). Attachment: weider-home-gym.pdf
Hi guys, I’m linking a post on reddit, there’s a sign I’ve never met in Gregg. I’m talking about that circle going back around the word at the end of both columns. The guy posting this says it seems to be a way to indicate the names. Someone having some deeper explanation? Is it actually…
Hello, Today was my first time trying to write the word “autoritaire” (authoritarian). I wasn’t sure how to treat the suffix so I looked it up in my DJS dictionary which shows it written in full. Following the spirit of compound prefixes and suffixes, I was wondering if suffix “-(vowel)+itaire” could still be written with a…
Hello, As my outlines are getting sloppy with free practice without supervision, I am currently reviewing the basics. I’m using the Gregg anniversary manual which describes shapes in much more detail than my DJS manual. The Anni manual explains that R, L, K, G should be distinctly curved at one end and almost straight toward the…
Hello, My French DJS manual says that -sh is a descending stroke that takes up half of the writing space, and it describes -sion as a “small” descending stroke, which looks definitely shorter than -sh. However the English Anniversary manual says that “The suffix shun (sion, tion) is expressed by sh”. Is there really a difference…
This extract about the importance of maintaining a relationship between our ancestors and our posterity, comes from American lawyer and statesman Daniel Webster’s Discourse in Commemoration of the First Settlement of New England, delivered at Plymouth on the December 22, 1820. Here it is presented in Centennial Gregg, transcribed by yours truly. Attachment: pride-in-ancestry.pdf
This article from the editors of History.com explains the history of the Mayflower and its role in the settlement of the New World. I transcribed it in Anniversary Gregg for the blog. Attachment: the-mayflower.pdf