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.
Here are some Google books links for full volumes of the Gregg Writer and the British Gregg Shorthand Magazine. I found these recently. A few years ago I posted several links for earlier issues of the Gregg Writer. These were not there at the time. I realize that most of these are available on the…
A beautiful poem of the holiday season by English author Christina Rossetti, transcribed by me in Centennial Gregg for the blog. Attachment: a-christmas-carol.pdf
Here is a lovely story from the pen of American writer Nora Archibald Smith, transcribed by yours truly in Anniversary Gregg. Attachment: a-story-of-the-forest.pdf
From Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, here’s the Christmas Dinner scene of Bob Cratchit, Ebenezer’s Scrooge underpaid employee, in which his youngest son Tim, who is very ill, delivers one of the most poignant lines in the story. I transcribed this adaptation in Simplified Gregg for the blog. Attachment: tiny-tims-christmas-dinner.pdf
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On January 1 2025, the 1929 Gregg Shorthand Anniversary manual enters the public domain in the United States. The copyright was renewed properly, so it took a long time for that manual to lose its copyright. Most of the anniversary textbooks created after 1929 are still copyright protected.
I recently updated my English key on the Internet Archive for the 1928 Gregg shorthand book The Raleigh Rainbows. That 1928 shorthand book was created as a learning tool for the 1916 Gregg shorthand manual. It soon became obsolete after the Anniversary manual came out in 1929. The Raleigh Rainbows shorthand book was only available…
In the original series of Gregg Shorthand for Colleges, Diamond Jubilee (1963-1965), was there a volume for “Transcription for Colleges”? I have Gregg Shorthand for Colleges, Diamond Jubilee Series, volume one (1963), Gregg Shorthand for Colleges, Diamond Jubilee Series, volume two (1965), and Gregg Speed Building for Colleges, Diamond Jubilee Series (1965). But I don’t…
I am planning to start writing as soon as I have free time for Gregg. A couple years ago, one of my motivations for learning shorthand was to use it for taking notes during (competitive) debate rounds. As I was writing “peace” over and over, I had the idea to use shorthand. (And I figured…
A few months back, I bought an Anniversary functional manual and started reading it. At some point, it occurred to me that high school students probably spent an hour per day in class and 40 minutes outside of class studying the manual. I didn’t have that much time. My study was somewhat intermittent, and when…