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 Everyone, I am getting close to starting Assignment 21 in the Simplified Functional Method book. Assignment 21 is where you begin the writing process and I was wondering if anyone out there can give me some “pointers” on how best to begin this new aspect in my shorthand training. It doesn’t appear to require…
The current assignment I’m studying in my Simplified Functional Manual are the vowel sounds: w, sw, wh. One of the words in my reading lesson is the word “wood”. The word WOOD Usually when I come across a new word when I study it I sound the strokes out loud. But, I really don’t understand…
To My Shorthand Friends: It’s hard to believe it’s been 13 months now that I began my journey in the study of Gregg shorthand. After all of these months I have made my way to Assignment 33 in the Simplified system. I do feel a small sense of accomplishment in making it to this point….
Would it be proper phrasing in the Simplified system to phrase “now is” or is it more proper to write them as separate words?
I was re-studying Lesson 11 in my Simplified manual with some reading practice this evening and I am a bit confused with the yellow highlighted word. (This picture is not of the entire sentence) but it says “…asked me to ship to her…” [home] is the next word. But, I don’t understand why the phrase…
I read this article on CNN.com today about handwriting and found it interesting. I’m posting a link in case anybody would like to read it. http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/26/tech/web/impact-technology-handwriting/index.html
Hi Everyone, I have a question regarding the long I and A following a vowel. The Simplified manual says “Any vowel following long I is represented by a small circle within the large circle.” What is the proper way to write these? Are you writing the large circle first and then the smaller circle inside?…
Well, my book arrived today but instead of getting the 1955 Gregg Shorthand Simplified Functional Method 2nd. Edition (green cover), they sent me the regular simplified manual 2nd edition non-functional. If I had hair I’d pull it out – LOL Since the book was published before 1970 it’s not even going to have an ISBN…
Ugh… Ok, getting a little frustrated. I got approval (LOL) from my other half that I can buy a copy of the Gregg Simplified Functional (2nd Edition) manual… But, man it’s almost impossible to know if you’re looking at the correct book while searching through all these site like AbeBooks, eBay, Amazon, etc. etc… All…
I’m sure there’s a logical explanation that I’m missing on something: I’m confused on when you would use the disjoined T to represent past tense for example the word Desired you use the disjoined T (section 53) but when you get to section 135 why is the word Mailed written m-a-ld instead of m-a-l-disjoined T?