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.
Thank you (ye unknown administrator) for approving my membership. 🙂 I just stumbled onto Shorthand about a week and a half ago, and it was like finding buried treasure that no one else knows about… Of course I’ve heard the term “shorthand” before, but I never saw a writing sample and always pictured it as…
I have created and am sharing a link to 34 Decks of Digital Flashcards that comprise most of the words in the Units of the Gregg Anniversary Edition. The Words are all images directly taken from a pdf of the book and amount to over 3000 translated words. They were created for a “Flashcards Deluxe”…
I have been compiling a list of phrases and expresses that I hear often but never see in writing. I’m doing this because I want to make my writing more conversational and less didactic, y’know, to bring my writing more in line with my talking. Maybe it will give people some ideas; I’d like to…
While looking around, I found an online course offered in Gregg Shorthand: http://www.universalclass.com/i/crn/33894.htm . From the description, they’re teaching Simplified (though the “Recommended Books” section lists a Centennial book… but the Syllabus has the Gregg Shorthand Manual Simplified in its “Course Materials” section). Costs are $45 for the course if you don’t need a certificate,…
I just received a copy of Alice for about $8 on Amazon…if you’re looking for a copy in “paper-form” instead of digital, it will get the job done for a fraction of a “real copy” Didn’t know if anyone would be interested in this or not, but the scans used are Georgie Gregg Gingell plates….
This booklet was published in 1949 to acquaint teachers of shorthand with the changes in the Simplified series and manual, as compared to the Anniversary edition. It details the changes in the areas of presentation of material, principles of the system, brief forms, phrasing, and miscellaneous rules. While the material may not be that useful…
I’m pretty new to this group, I thank you all for such a well laid out place to discover new learning tools for writing shorthand. I am learning Anniversary, and I recently acquired the functional method books and love the reading material it offers. I also have the American Readings in Gregg Shorthand of which…
While looking around eBay and AbeBooks for Gregg Materials, I came across a mysterious book called “The Gregg Writer, Volume 15” by “Anonymous”. Apparently, it’s a 736-page print-on-demand book produced by BiblioBazaar LLC. I get the impression that it’s a scanned reproduction of old issues of the Gregg Writer magazine. They say they only do…
In order get a bit more reading practice in Simplified Gregg, I ordered a number of manuals which are slowly trickling in (postage from the US to Germany takes quite a while). Among other things, I had ordered both a 1st edition and a 2nd edition of the Gregg Shorthand Manual Simplified, since I had…
The pre transcription exercises in the manual have no punctuation. My assumption is that when taking dictation, the only punctuation taken would be periods, question marks, and end of paragraph marks. Is the idea that the stenographer also includes commas when possible? What about hyphens and quotations marks? Is this more of a style choice…