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’m having trouble seeing the difference between the e stroke and the small loop that represents ye (in Simplified). Am I right in believing “year” and “yesterday” begin with e, while “yes” and “yeast” begin with the ye loop? In yo- words like yacht, yoga, yolk (in the Simplified dictionary) the first stroke looks very…
This Christmas-themed short story, written in Diamond Jubilee, was published in the December 1965 Today’s Secretary. Attachment: All_That_Listens.pdf
In trying to quantify how much difference there is between the outlines in Simplified, Diamond Jubilee and Notehand, I compared their outlines for 67 words that begin with the letter N; 16 of the words are written differently in DJS and/or Notehand compared to Simplified. This document shows the data (using a quirky system of…
I recently obtained the November 1958 edition of The National Shorthand Reporter. Most of the magazine is not very interesting but I found some fascinating (to me) classified ads on the final pages. Here we can see how an important collection of shorthand books was amassed, and there are a couple of ads indicating that…
A few months ago I saw a book titled Syllabic Writing for sale online. The description was sparse: the listing only gave the title, said it was about shorthand and was published in 1937. I bought it assuming it would be a description of some obscure and exotic shorthand system based on syllables. It’s actually…
• Textbook’s 60th Anniversary According to Amazon, June 1st will be the 60th anniversary of the publication of Gregg Shorthand Manual Simplified – second edition. It’s extraordinary that this book is still in print 60 years later. And it’s often #1 or #2 in Amazon USA’s Business & Money > Skills > Secretarial Aids &…
Those interested in the history of Gregg Publishing and/or Gregg Shorthand will enjoy perusing The Light-Liner. A few volumes have recently been put online at the Louis A. Leslie Shorthand Collection website, part of Rider University Libraries. This is a link to Volume 2, numbers 2-8. The other relevant items can be found by typing…
Listening to the radio while driving home this morning I heard there has been a disaster in Vanuatu. How would you suggest writing Vanuatu or, for example, muon? Would you use a joining of the oo hook followed by o, similar to the one in water? This brought to mind another question: Over the years…
At tandfonline.com there is a searchable archive of specialized magazine articles including many 20th century articles about shorthand from The Journal of Business Education. You can view the first page of each article for free and for a rather high price you can obtain complete articles. Search terms such as shorthand, notehand, diamond jubilee and…
Apologies if this has been done before. I put together a little chart showing the sequence in which the symbols of Gregg are introduced to students in the textbooks of several different versions. Attachment: order_of_presentation.pdf