Tag: general

The loop in the phrase “I had” is written in a clockwise motion, correct?

Carlos, Thanks for re-posting “After Twenty Years” with the missing page included. I’d like to make another suggestion. The drop-down tabs for the reading selections allow us to choose readings in all the Gregg series except Centennial. Now that you’ve written up a couple of things in Centennial, could you add a drop-down tab for…

In which direction do we write the loop the words agreeable, disagree, disagreeable, agreement, disagreement? From the shape of the forms I would be tempted to say that it isn’t in the same direction as the circle for “a” would be, that is to say I think it’s written in the counter-clockwise direction, which doesn’t…

In Pre-Annivesary, abolish and abolition are written abolez and abolz, whereas in Anniversary they are written abolz and abolez, respectively. Why the change? Also, why bother distinguishing between them? One is a verb while the other is a noun. How could we confuse them?

In what direction is the question mark written? Are both ticks written from left to right? And which is written first, the one that looks like a backslash () or the one that looks like a slash (/)? Another character I am unsure of is the one that denotes a proper noun and looks like…

In which order are we supposed to write the leading h in head and the leading a in ahead and away? Do we write the a and h first, followed by the rest of the word? When the h is in the middle of a word, we have to write it at end.

This article first appeared in The Gregg Writer and was further included in the first edition of Gregg Speed Studies. It gives very sage advice as to how to improve your shorthand skills. I rewrote it and present it here in Anniversary, Simplified, and Centennial Gregg. Attachment: success-in-shorthand-anniversary.pdf Attachment: success-in-shorthand-simplified.pdf Attachment: success-in-shorthand-centennial.pdf Attachment: success-in-shorthand-transcript.pdf