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.
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
Apologies if this has been done before. I put together a little chart showing the sequence in which the symbols of Gregg are introduced to students in the textbooks of several different versions. Attachment: order_of_presentation.pdf
Thought it might be a good idea to have a thread for booklists, just in case anyone is hit by the urge to make any, or wants to link to existing lists. It happened to me… I made a preliminary list of Series 90 books, based on data from WorldCat and ABEbooks, which I have…
This is a reference I created while working my way through the Gregg Manual Simplified 2nd Edition (I’m still on lesson 54 but I’ve made it through the instructional material.) It is pretty rough as it grew organically while I worked through the lessons, so I’ll probably upload a better version once I have a…
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…
Here is a truly remarkable magnum opus, self-published by a gentleman who worked for the U.S. Dept. of Commerce as a Technologist (Chemical and Metallurgical.) This volume takes Gregg shorthand to the outermost limits of its applicability in a demanding field. The author also presents a method for representing numbers with Gregg outlines (Appendix B.)…