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Lee 3 December 2022 at 7:37 pm on Gregg Shorthand PinsI think that's a really nice offer. I have a couple of these Gregg pins that I've found over the
Carlos 2 December 2022 at 1:12 pm on The Christmas Spruce TreeYou're welcome!
Susan Johnston 2 December 2022 at 9:01 am on The Christmas Spruce TreeThank you Carlos! I am thrilled to read this as my father's family is Norwegian. Susan
Lee 27 November 2022 at 5:35 am on confrontational, eyebrows, clothesThe outline for "actual" is a good example of the Gregg shorthand "middle way" between what people say and a
Nicholas Salkilld 25 November 2022 at 2:27 am on confrontational, eyebrows, clothesThat's interesting. It had not been brought to my attention that a T is in "actual" (I may have used
Gary Forister 24 November 2022 at 2:37 pm on confrontational, eyebrows, clothesIf you have the Gregg SH Manual Simplified, look at Ch.8 #57. Note "nation" and "national" where the L is
lvw 23 November 2022 at 2:50 pm on homographsI agree that the continuity of Gregg's system is fascinating. It also is a sign of Gregg's instinct for practicality
Lee 21 November 2022 at 1:10 pm on homographsI think your comments are exactly on target. Gregg wasn't striving to be a phonetician. He was striving to create
Nicholas Salkilld 21 November 2022 at 5:30 am on confrontational, eyebrows, clothesThanks Lee. I looked them up. At the time I tried to think of similar words but (as always) my
Lee 21 November 2022 at 4:42 am on confrontational, eyebrows, clothesThe Gregg shorthand dictionaries don't give words like "confrontational" and "computational", etc. "Sensational" is in the dictionary, though. And if
Nicholas Salkilld 21 November 2022 at 12:52 am on confrontational, eyebrows, clothesThat''s useful. So my first instinct about the L wasn't so wrong. Thanks.
lvw 20 November 2022 at 2:16 pm on homographsAbove, I referred to Gregg's presumed naïveté about the pronunciation of vowels. Let me retract that here. He used grade
lvw 20 November 2022 at 2:14 pm on confrontational, eyebrows, clothesI'd write "confrontational" like (1), "eyebrow" like (2), and "clothes" like (4) while trying to keep the roundness of the
lvw 20 November 2022 at 1:53 pm on homographsI'm originally from the east coast (the mid-Atlantic, rhotic part), but have been living in the midwest for many years. So
Lee 19 November 2022 at 6:37 am on homographsMy pronunciation of "mayor" and "mare" is the same as yours: two syllables, one syllable. I think the Gregg system
lvw 18 November 2022 at 7:50 pm on homographsFor me, mayor has an r at the end and is two syllables. Mare has an r and is one
Carlos 18 November 2022 at 4:38 pm on homographsThey make a small acknowledgment in the preface of the Theory and Practice book though: "The authors are indebted to
Lee 18 November 2022 at 4:11 pm on homographsThe sheer arrogance of creating this system, and then giving no acknowledgment to Gregg as the source and inspiration, is
Carlos 16 November 2022 at 8:08 pm on homographsThe plates of the Century 21 books were written by Grace Bowman, who also wrote the plates for the third edition
Lee 16 November 2022 at 4:50 am on homographsOne fascinating thing about Century 21 is that it's clearly based on Gregg, but the authors, all of whom I