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.
Here is the outline for happiness in Simplified, with a pic from the FM manual: This bugs me, because to my eye, it seems different from most outlines. The way “-ness” is tacked on doesn’t feel right, sticking out at an angle the way it does. I would have expected a reverse curve on the first e…
Does anyone know? It would have been one of the Centennial books, I suppose, but I wonder what the very last shorthand publication was that they produced. And was there any kind of official announcement about discontinuing Gregg shorthand? Or did it just kind of quietly go off the market?
The latest addition to my collection. The book is subtitled “An Exposition of the Gregg System for Self Tuition”, and is authored by Ernest W. Crockett and F Addington Symonds. It is very obviously an expansion of the earlier New Rapid Course (by 70 pages), which I mentioned in an earlier post (http://gregg-shorthand.com/2014/09/10/gregg-shorthand-new-rapid-course-1940/). Regarding Mr…
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…
A clear acetate overlay, used to determine how close a student’s writing is to the “correct” model in terms of shape, slant, and size. Similar overlays were available for penmanship systems, such as Zaner Bloser and Palmer. I guess someone could make a similar overlay using a copy machine and a piece of transparency plastic…
Continuing along in Simplified, I was exposed to the jent blend for the first time today. By itself it seems like jent/jend isn’t too bad, but then it can also be pend/pent. And in the same lesson is the “other” stroke that can be def/dif, div/dev and — last but not least — tive/tif… wow,…
The spiral binding is plastic, not metal, so I’m not sure about the vintage of this notebook.
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”:…
A little while ago, I had said I would share my impression of the DJS series of books. Now, my goal is not to offend any DJS fans. I am purely speaking of the physical materials themselves, NOT the DJS system of Gregg. Sitting on the library shelf, they are very cheerful as a set. A…
I wondered about the speed limitation of Notehand, and whether it is as bad as reputed to be. Although I’ve settled on Simplified for now, I still like to use the Notehand book for additional reading practice. Much better stuff than, “A girl doesn’t have to be a beauty to get ahead in business.” 🙂…