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’ve retypeset the Q’s and A’s of Shorthand Theory. I’ve added hyperlinks to the contents. There are some spacing issues that I haven’t figured out yet. I’ve added some forms that I wrote (page 91), but I’m not sure of the best way to go about this. What do you think? qa-shorthand.pdf Edit: updated post…
Does anyone know the fonts used in the various Gregg publications, for instance the Gregg Writer, the Pre-Anniversary and Anniversary manuals, the Q’s and A’s of Shorthand Theory?
The Q’s and A’s of Shorthand Theory mentions the expression he-was-in-there (answer 65). How would this expression be written? With a jog between n and th?
How come the Pre-Anniversary rules for omitting “of the” (paragraph 84) and “to” (paragraph 86) and for indicating “ing” (paragraph 152) were removed in Anniversary?
How would you write “fired” in Anniversary? Joining the d to the reversed i seems awkward.
The loop in the phrase “I had” is written in a clockwise motion, correct?
In which direction do we write the loop the words agreeable, disagree, disagreeable, agreement, disagreement? From the shape of the forms I would be tempted to say that it isn’t in the same direction as the circle for “a” would be, that is to say I think it’s written in the counter-clockwise direction, which doesn’t…
In Pre-Annivesary, abolish and abolition are written abolez and abolz, whereas in Anniversary they are written abolz and abolez, respectively. Why the change? Also, why bother distinguishing between them? One is a verb while the other is a noun. How could we confuse them?
In what direction is the question mark written? Are both ticks written from left to right? And which is written first, the one that looks like a backslash () or the one that looks like a slash (/)? Another character I am unsure of is the one that denotes a proper noun and looks like…
In which order are we supposed to write the leading h in head and the leading a in ahead and away? Do we write the a and h first, followed by the rest of the word? When the h is in the middle of a word, we have to write it at end.