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 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…
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…
I’ve been working on my Gregg for just over a year and with Carlos’ encouragement I’m posting a sample of my current writing. The text is taken from a collection of poems by Hannah Flagg Gould entitled “The Mother’s Dream”. Any comments about the shorthand is appreciated, especially if you found a part difficult to…
I came across these videos recently and thought members of this group might be interested. Vivien Spitz was the first female Gregg reporter in the US House of Representatives and wrote Gregg at 260+ wpm. She discusses her background and career as a (court) reporter, Gregg writer, etc. She was a reporter at the Nuremberg…
I was wondering if anyone else who who has worked their way through the Function Method of Anniversary Gregg has experienced a dramatic slowdown around lesson 60 when the prefixes and suffixes are added to the lessons. Prior to that I was working at a decent pace similar to what must have been taught in…
I see that “usable” according to the the Anni dictionary uses a dis-joined “b” stroke. Theory seems to be that dis-joined “b” is for “bility”. Does that mean that “usable” and “usability” are the same outline in Anni? Of course, they are different parts of speech and so should be able to be transcribed correctly…
I was wondering whether later versions of Gregg improved on something in previous versions or if they fixed flaws in previous versions. The basic trend seemed to be towards reducing brief forms but were there any significant improvements (beyond brief reduction, assuming you think of that as an improvement)?