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.
This is an article from 2009 from a world record holder on his speedbuilding technique: 360 Words Per Minute World Record Holder Shares Methods By Mark Kislingbury Mark Kislingbury, the setter of the Guinness World Record of 360 words per minute with 97.22% accuracy, shares his methods. “What does this champion speed writer say about…
Anyone have any idea why they leave the word “gentlemen” out of the brief form lists?
Just a quick hello to say I’ve been lurking here on and off for nearly a year since I took up learning shorthand again and that I’ve enjoyed reading posts and am glad to have just become an actual member and able to participate in the conversation. Here’s something I just figured out which you…
The ability to write brief forms automatically and fast is one of the ingredients in improving your shorthand speed. To that effect, I recreated the following drill that appeared in an old Gregg recording. The sound files below contain all of the brief forms for all Gregg Shorthand series, dictated in alphabetical order at 100…
I scanned in some more charts, this time from Gregg Shorthand for the Electronic Office Parts 1 & 2 (1984). I created a key for them as well. Enjoy!
From the 1960 Gregg Notehand text (inside covers): If you want an outline summary of the Gregg Notehand edition, click here.
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”:…
On p. 15 of _Supplementary Exercises in Gregg Shorthand_ (1918) There is the following drill sentence : “The tenant says that he will have the lease signed and sent to us tomorrow.” The word ‘lease’ is written as l-e-s, with the acute mark below the e, apparently to distinguish the outline from ‘letters’. This is…
I was looking at the Gregg Shorthand key dictionary the other day, and I think it is a great resource. Why don’t I make some sort of bulk translation tool with it? I think it would work better without the dashes (sorry if I’m stepping on anyone’s toes) and I am not aware of software…