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.
Today, I put a new high-resolution color scan of the 1902 Gregg Shorthand Dictionary that matches the 1902 Preanniversary Gregg Shorthand manual. The PDF file I placed on the Internet Archive several weeks ago was lower resolution. This new scan is a great improvement over my earlier scan. This dictionary was first published in 1902….
The U.S. 1902 Gregg Shorthand manual has copyright dates of 1901 and 1902, but it was not printed until July 1902. It was not sold until July or August 1902. Here is the timeline of events: There is no copyright record in the US copyright books for the Gregg Shorthand manual in 1901. The Forward…
Today I put a January 1922 article written by John Gregg on the Internet Archive. Gregg discussed rare Gregg Shorthand books and magazines. (The link to the article is included at the bottom of this post.) Gregg’s article was titled “Light-Line Phonography” and “Gregg Shorthand.” Some Bibliographical Notes. The article was written for the Willis-Byrom…
Today, I put a color scan of the 1902 Gregg Shorthand Phrase Book on the Internet Archive. It matches the 1902 Preanniversary Gregg Shorthand manual. It was first published in 1902. This book was sold by Gregg until 1924 when it was replaced by a later version that matched the 1916 Gregg Shorthand Manual. This…
Today, I put a color scan of the 1902 Gregg Shorthand Dictionary on the Internet Archive. It matches the 1902 Preanniversary Gregg Shorthand manual. It was first published in 1902. This book was sold by Gregg until September 1916 when it was replaced by a later version that matched the 1916 Gregg Shorthand Manual. This…
EDIT 2020-05-01: Found another Gregg medical steno book on Archive.org, added it and updated the count of Gregg medical shorthand books. Hello all, I’m trying to figure out which Gregg medical shorthand book to get. I poked around the blog archives, but I wasn’t able to find the exact answer to my question. So far…
Today on the Internet Archive, I uploaded a color scan of the Gregg Shorthand Phrase Book that matches the 1916 Preanniversary Gregg Shorthand manual. It was first published in 1924. This 1924 book entered the public domain as soon as it was first published. There is a 1924 copyright notice in the book. However, there…
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…
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…
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