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.
A few months back, I bought an Anniversary functional manual and started reading it. At some point, it occurred to me that high school students probably spent an hour per day in class and 40 minutes outside of class studying the manual. I didn’t have that much time. My study was somewhat intermittent, and when…
From 1920 through 1960, the English keys for the shorthand plates in the Gregg Writer and Today’s Secretary only appeared in The American Shorthand Teacher (1920-1950) and Business Education World (1950-1990). Scans of every issue of The American Shorthand Teacher and Business Education World are available as separate magazine issues on the Internet Archive. (They…
UPDATE: Edited cheatsheet 10/03/19. Changes: Fixed typos/errors, entered missing entries, clarified/made more concise some rules, re-alphabetized some entries that were clumped together. A few weeks ago I compiled a cheatsheet of the Simplified abbreviation principles (as well as some alphabetic stuff that I was having trouble remembering). My copy of the 2nd edition Simplified Manual…
Since I took up pre-anniversary Gregg shorthand a couple months ago, I have been using it in my daily life instead of longhand. At the moment, I have not done much dictation, since I have not put much emphasis on speed yet, only correctness of theory, but have tested my ability to take dictation, and…
I came across this a little while ago: https://blog.archive.org/2017/10/10/books-from-1923-to-1941-now-liberated/ This appears to be a *legal* option for sharing books that were published between 1923 and 1941, which opens up the possibility of legal digital access to, for instance, the anniversary edition functional method books, which were published in 1936 (and renewed in Oct 1963, dang…
I was looking at the Gregg Shorthand key dictionary the other day, and I think it is a great resource. Why don’t I make some sort of bulk translation tool with it? I think it would work better without the dashes (sorry if I’m stepping on anyone’s toes) and I am not aware of software…
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…
And the final batch. As always, let me know if there are problems. I caught one file with more than one passage, and some typos, but there are probably more. Now that I’ve had my programming and organizing fix, it’s time to get back to shorthand. Cricket Attachment: gsf2-49.zip Attachment: gsf2-50.zip Attachment: gsf2-51.zip Attachment: gsf2-52.zip…
Penultimate. Attachment: gsf2-43.zip Attachment: gsf2-44.zip Attachment: gsf2-45.zip Attachment: gsf2-46.zip Attachment: gsf2-47.zip Attachment: gsf2-48.zip (by Cricket for group greggshorthand)
Tada! Once the uploads are done, the project will be done. The site will have all the passages that have transcripts in the appendix of Gregg Simplified Functional Edition 2, copyright 1949, printed 1955. Same notes as before. I’ve combined each assignment into one zip file for this batch. The file names now have just…