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’d like to ask if there are any extra exercises or reading materials available after each chapter or lesson in the simplified manual. I noticed that there’s a graded exercise for the Anniversary manual which is available for downloading, how about for Gregg simplified?
The full title of this blog post published on May 27, 2015 is “Despotic Characters: Researching Shorthand at the New York Public Library.” http://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/05/27/researching-shorthand The author even identifies a single educational institution in NYC that is still teaching Gregg shorthand!
I have spoken with several ham radio operators who use Morse code, and none of them use or learned Gregg shorthand, nor do they know of any Morse operator who does use shorthand. This seems odd to me, as it makes sense that in taking down code, a faster method of writing would be most…
Back when I took shorthand in high school, it used to drive me nuts that we didn’t have a key or a student transcript to go with the text. If we got stuck, we had to wait to ask the teacher in class. I remember being frustrated with not knowing what some of the outlines…
Time for a trivia question: How old was Louis Leslie when he started working in The Gregg Publishing Company? Anyone knows the answer?
I’m a homeschooling parent. I learned the Diamond Jubilee version of shorthand when I was in high school back in the 80’s. Thanks to this blog, I was introduced to Notehand and Greghand, which I’d never heard of before. I bought the Notehand book and was delighted to find out that it teaches note-taking skills…
• 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 &…
The Louis Leslie Collection at Rider University includes a Pitmanite response to Gregg shorthand under the title An American Light Liner. In attempting to assert “the supremacy of Pitman’s Shorthand,” the author(s?) provide some unintended comic relief in their summary of purpose on page 5: It is the main object of this critique to show…
Complete beginner to Gregg here, currently trying to teach myself Simplified from the FM Manual. A while back I remember watching an instructional video on Gregg and the person used dot paper to teach proportions. Granted, proportions come naturally over time, but would any of you recommend it? Or is it deleterious to learning? What…
I read that 600 words make up 90 percent of the words we speak in the English language. Is the key to learning Gregg learning these 600 words?