readingmaterial | Gregg Shorthand

The Doll’s Wish

GeneralCarlos1 December 20220

This is a very nice Christmas story, here transcribed by me in Centennial Gregg. Attachment: the-dolls-wish.pdf

A Simple Bill of Fare for a Christmas Dinner

GeneralCarlos1 December 20220

From her book Bits About Home Matters, American poet Helen Hunt Jackson (H. H.) shares her ideas of what should be included in a Christmas dinner. I transcribed it in Anniversary for the blog. Attachment: a-simple-bill-of-fare-for-a-christmas-dinner.pdf

The Christmas Spruce Tree

GeneralCarlos1 December 20222

Here is a Norwegian Christmas legend, transcribed in Simplified Gregg by yours truly. Attachment: the-christmas-spruce-tree.pdf

Thanksgiving Day

GeneralCarlos1 November 20223

An extract of the Thanksgiving Sermon: The Family as an American Institution, delivered by American clergyman Henry Ward Beecher, on Thursday, November 26, 1868, here transcribed in Centennial Gregg by me for the blog. Attachment: thanksgiving-day.pdf

Welcome, Butterflies!

GeneralCarlos1 November 20228

Every fall, thousands of Monarch butterflies flock to Monterey County in California, settling in at forest groves to wait out the winter. Though the butterflies congregate in areas from Big Sur through Monterey, their best-known wintering-over spot is in Pacific Grove. This area, filled with pine and eucalyptus trees, is the preferred Monarch butterfly habitat…

The First Thanksgiving Proclamation

GeneralCarlos1 November 20220

Here is a small history of the presidential Thanksgiving proclamations, along with the first one signed by George Washington, transcribed in Simplified Gregg by yours truly. Attachment: the-first-thanksgiving-proclamation.pdf

Potency of English Words

GeneralCarlos1 October 20220

This nicely written essay describes the richness of the English language and reminds us about the power of our word choices. I transcribed it in Centennial Gregg for the blog. Attachment: potency-of-english-words.pdf

The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes

GeneralCarlos1 October 20223

In early June 1912, a cataclysmic explosion occurred in a remote area of Alaska, about 250 miles southwest of Anchorage. The explosion was so massive that its effects were felt in places as far away from the explosion as Washington D.C., as high-altitude haze robbed the northern temperate zone of about 10% of the Sun’s…

History

GeneralCarlos1 October 20220

Here is a small essay written by English historian James Anthony Froude, transcribed by me in Simplified Gregg. Attachment: history.pdf

The Fox

GeneralCarlos1 September 20220

Here is an entertaining selection about the fox, transcribed by me in Centennial Gregg. Attachment: the-fox.pdf

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