which S after RD blend?
How would you indicate the plural of a word like board, ward, yard in any version of GS that has the rd blend? Are there any examples in the Simplified or DJS textbooks or dictionaries?
shorthand pangram
As you may know, a pangram is a sentence that uses every letter of a language’s alphabet at least once. A common example is “a quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” I was wondering if anyone has composed pangrams using the basic Gregg alphabet, however you might define that. (Would you want to…
An Experimental Study of Two Shorthand Systems
(PDF File) This 1937 thesis describes an experiment in which Gregg shorthand learners and Pitman shorthand students were carefully tested to compare how quickly the two systems can be learned. Many of the Gregg students achieved proficiency and were offered jobs before the experiment concluded. The Pitman students did not do so well, and that’s…
Gregg News Letter on eBay
Somebody on eBay has acquired almost 70 issues of Gregg News Letter and is trying to find a collector who will want them. See auction number 321547499077 … How interesting are these newsletters? Are they mostly just transcription practice material or are there lots of insights into the Gregg Publishing Company’s history in them?
Technical Minutiae
(1) Charles Rader’s proportions If one were to scan a page from the Notehand manual (such as page 31 from the 1st edition) at 300 pixels per inch, the height of each box in which Mr Rader drew his glyphs would be exactly 100 pixels (from the top of one line to the top of…
two very random questions
(1) Is there a term or nickname for Gregg users? Greggorians? (2) I don’t understand how the outlines for “maraschino” were contructed in the Simplified and Diamond Jubilee dictionaries. In Simplified, what is that big arc that connects the “ish” to the e-n-o? What’s the 2nd vowel in the DJS version, is that /a/ representing…
Lists of Gregg Books
Thought it might be a good idea to have a thread for booklists, just in case anyone is hit by the urge to make any, or wants to link to existing lists. It happened to me… I made a preliminary list of Series 90 books, based on data from WorldCat and ABEbooks, which I have…
Notehand brief forms
Probably getting way ahead of myself but I wanted to compare the brief forms in Notehand with their equivalents in Simplified and Diamond Jubilee. Using the charts on the Angelfishy site as my source of info for the latter two systems. Likely to be some errors here so I would appreciate corrections. m for “am”:…