Happy New Year!
I wish everyone a great 2015 and, of course, include practicing Gregg Shorthand in your New Year’s resolutions!
Guide to the John Robert Gregg Papers – New York Public Library collection
This document may be of use to anyone interested in the history and development of Gregg Shorthand; the NYPL has a huge collection of papers, documents, draft books, photographs etc., donated by his widow, Janet Kinley Gregg. They will copy documents (for a charge) for members of the public. Their staff are very helpful, but…
Merry Christmas!
Here is a list of Christmas reading material for your pleasure!
Gregg humour
This is a “practice-using-blogger” post. The text is not mine; I borrowed it from The Gregg Scrapbook. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4leruaB5syqYU9MZ1AwaWhVTXM/view?usp=sharing Any ideas on how to rename the link?
The A.B.C. of Gregg Shorthand – London 1941
I have acquired a copy of “The A. B. C. of Gregg Shorthand”, a small pamphlet of 40 pages, measuring 4 and a quarter inches, by a little under 5 and a half inches; the cover is a dull orange. The price is sixpence. The title is set out on the cover in this format:…
One Teacher’s Experience
The Gregg School in Chicago (founded by Dr. Gregg) used to offer summer courses for teachers of shorthand and typing. The classes were taught by experts, such as Louis Leslie and Clyde Blanchard. This article that appeared in the May 1942 issue of the Gregg Newsletter was written by a teacher who details her experience…
You’d think I’d learn
If using AbeBooks, always contact the seller and confirm the exact and full book title. Gregg Shorthand Manual Simplified, Teachers Handbook is not the same as Gregg Shorthand Manual Simplified, Home Study Edition (The Home Study Edition is a paperback, 1956, plates by C Radar. Content is similar to the regular manual, with 70 chapters,…
Brief Form for “Employ”
I was wondering why there isn’t a Brief Form for the word “employ”. I would have thought that it would rate high on a list of most commonly used words, especially for a shorthand writer in the business world. (Also, I particularly dislike the fully written out forms of “employee” and “employees”; they look as…
ASCII Gregg?
I remember posting on here way back about a more standardized mapping of Gregg shorthand strokes to ASCII characters. Unfortunately, I seem to have lost the content of that particular website, and I don’t think I have it on my hard drive. Would anyone happen to have a copy of it lying around? I don’t…
“accident” in Diamond Jubilee
I just happened to notice in “Speed Building for Colleges, Diamond Jubilee Series”, 1966, on page 473 the outline for the word “accident” is given as a-s. Have I missed something? That isn’t a DJS brief form, and it doesn’t appear in the DJS dictionary. The book doesn’t give any explanation that I can find,…