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.
Forgive me if this has been answered in the past, but I need to ask: What speed studies book do you recommend for someone who writes pre-Anniversary more consistently than Anniversary? (Mostly, I think the short forms and conventions are faster.) I have a 1920 Anniversary Speed Studies book, which I find useful for a…
A question for those who studied under a real teacher. I’ve taken dictation for Chapter 2 at approx 47wpm three times now, and my error rate is still 6%. (I add up the total words, subtract one word for each wrong or missed word and 1/2 a word for each bad outline.) Should I: a)…
Hello Everyone, I need to know a good way to study shorthand. I’m learning from the Diamond Jubilee Series, Second Edition book along with the Shorthand for Colleges workbook also Diamond Jubilee Series, Volume One, Second Edition. I practice the strokes first, read the section at the end of the chapter twice, then…
Moved from Anything Goes section: (by johnsapp for everyone) Reply Recommend Delete Message 1 of 4 in Discussion From: JRGAnniversary (Original Message) Sent: 5/20/2007 1:14 PM This morning I was practicing the word lists in Chapter 12 of the 1916 Manual then turned to the 1917 Speed Studies for more practice and was somewhat surprised to…
Hi guys! I’ve been trying to get a hang of the r principle and seem to have it at least understood, though I’m not sure when to omit the R with no representation of it even being there (like “large”). Correct me if I’m wrong, but I seem to notice a few patterns in that…
My -ld blend is particularly awful. Any advice? Unlike other forms, this one doesn’t even seem to improve for me since, aside from “raise the end”, I haven’t found much instruction about it. (Compare Mr. Gregg’s detailed pages on the dn/dm, nd/md blends in Speed Studies, for example.) And checking the examples helps little, since…
What do all of you do when you run into unfamiliar words in dictation? I notice that even at 60wpm, I totally flip out, make some vague scribble that’s always wrong, and then end up so behind I have to start over. For example, I’ll be going along just fine: “I trust that you will…
New study aid in the documents section: http://www.msnusers.com/GreggShorthand/Documents/1916_analogicals.txt It lists all the 1916 analogical endings and beginnings as headers, preceding sections with every matching word which occurs more than twice in the Brown corpus. The matching words are sorted in descending order of frequency, from left to right, prefixed by their number of occurrences in…
hello, i have been looking around but noone has much information on shorthand. i have bad handwriting, it is legable but not very good. I want to learn some kind of shorthand, but i dont know what kind, it has to be somewhat easy because i dont have much time (chaotic high school), i will…
Hello all! This is my first post so I’ll start with an introduction and then move on to my questions… I’ve got some serious intentions on picking up Gregg short hand. I’m an admin assistant and also a part time massage therapist. The usefulness of shorthand at the office job is obvious but I’m also…