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.
In case you didn’t know, the Internet Archive (archive.org, openlibrary.org, and the Wayback Machine) suffered a major cyberattack a few days ago. For that reason, if you’re trying to access materials from those sites, you may not be able to do so. They expect to restore full service in a few days, so hopefully this…
For the next week or so, we will have intermittent access issues to the blog due to server upgrades. So if you try to access the blog during an “unlucky time”, please try again later on. I will keep everyone updated when everything is back to normal using this post. I apologize for this inconvenience….
I’ve long had an interest in shorthand, because it seemed like a magical power to write quickly in (to other people) gibberish squiggles. But nothing ever came of it (because I’ve long had interests in dozens of other things). Hopefully, I can learn it now. I’m starting the Functional manual for Anniversary (from archive.org). I…
Hello, I was looking for resources and manuals for Gregg shorthand adaptations to other languages, specifically the languages Afrikaans, Esperanto, French, German, Hebrew, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Catalan, Thai, and Tagalog (these languages were mentioned on Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_shorthand#Adaptations). I’ve managed to find some materials for Chinese, Esperanto, French, German,…
In Gregg Pre-Anniversary, it says that en, in, un, em, and im at the start of a word (when it occurs before a consonant) is simply expressed without the vowel (as simply n or m). Why does this not apply to “um,” like in umbrella? Further, why not apply this to ng and nk with…
As stated in the title, I’d like some help on the outline for “they’re” (in 1916 Pre-Anniversary Gregg). Thank you for reading this post.
Do you know of anyone who could transcribe Forkner? Recently there was a post on my community Facebook page, asking for someone who could transcribe Forkner shorthand. It seems that after the passing of his mother, the man found many years of her journals written in Forkner. He would like to have them transcribed so…
Does this study about the 42 elementary English sound bring us further? F. e. in the (classification) rubrication of the vowel sounds. The document is larger than 2 mb so I can’t upload it. https://www.dropbox.com/s/mk5l1yuy9n4nhmj/42%20english%20sounds.png?dl=0 out: SEVEN THOUSAND WORDS OFTE N MISPRONOUNCED A COMPLETE HAN DBOOK OF DIFFICU LTI ES I N ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION INCLUDING…
I know articles like these come up from time to time. This is based on a new study in Norway. Why writing by hand makes kids smarter
I’m curious what others think about transcribing, say, journals and letters written in shorthand for someone who isn’t the original owner of those items. We sometimes see pleas for such help. Do you think it’s ethical? Obviously, such persons who take the trouble to write a journal or letter in shorthand most likely have a…