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’ve long had an interest in shorthand, because it seemed like a magical power to write quickly in (to other people) gibberish squiggles. But nothing ever came of it (because I’ve long had interests in dozens of other things). Hopefully, I can learn it now. I’m starting the Functional manual for Anniversary (from archive.org). I…
This is an article from 2009 from a world record holder on his speedbuilding technique: 360 Words Per Minute World Record Holder Shares Methods By Mark Kislingbury Mark Kislingbury, the setter of the Guinness World Record of 360 words per minute with 97.22% accuracy, shares his methods. “What does this champion speed writer say about…
I just finished scanning and uploaded Mark I. Markett’s Word and Sentence Drills for Gregg Shorthand (Anniversary Edition). It’s a useful book for lists of related words and sentences designed to reinforce specific parts of Gregg theory and refers to the Manual with which it should obviously be used in conjunction. There was a version…
I recently scanned and just uploaded to archive.org Gregg Speed Building. It corresponds with the Anniversary manual which it refers to often by paragraph number, so you will want to have that handy as well. My understanding is that this was often the next text after one completed Gregg Speed Studies. It’s well worth a…
I thought it might be handy to put all the dictation recording links in one place, so they are easier to find. These links represent hundreds of dictation recordings! I’ve always been intrigued by the concept of the shorthand laboratory of yesteryear. If you have Evernote, you can turn your phone or tablet into a…
I thought it might be helpful for newbies to have one place where they can go to find keys to their shorthand books. I remember feeling frustrated in high school at times when we weren’t provided with a key to our shorthand text. Pre-Anniversary Gregg Shorthand (1916) Key to Manual Gregg Shorthand Reading Book (1900)…
I’ve been looking through the 1916 manual, and I’m not really clear why the rules for expressing -er are the way they are, especially when it comes to word-signs. You can either use can disjoined r. Or you can use a joined r. Or you can use the reversing principle if the brief contains the…
These two articles with suggestions on writing chemical terminology appeared in the October and November 1928 issues of The Gregg Writer. As someone who has used shorthand for technical and scientific writing, I believe these suggestions, while not as comprehensive as those proposed in James Kanegis’ book, are nevertheless very useful. Attachment: chemical-shorthand.pdf
This vocabulary chart appeared in the February 1922 issue of The Gregg Writer. Attachment: an-expedient-in-vocabulary-study.pdf
The following chart of Pre-Anniversary (1916) wordsigns appeared in the January 1922 issue of The Gregg Writer. Attachment: a-wordsign-chart.jpg