Episode 1 Gregg Shorthand Alphabet And The Different Sizes 52 Off Gregg is always the first system to look at, because of its proven record and its popularity, wherever it was tried without prejudice. (i say that because, in australia, there were attempts to block "unshaded" systems from the civil service, in the ignorant and mistaken belief that they were "not as good". Hello all, i recently started learning gregg shorthand (simplified second edition) and i am enjoying it a lot. but i have some questions regarding rules that either i cannot understand, or didn’t find in the manual so far. ing dot vs. e ng stroke: in words like heating, they use a dot, but in words like spring, they use the e plus the ng stroke.
Pitman English Shorthand The Vowels Chapter 2 A perfect system would have distinct strokes at least for the five vowels. it would be nice if it could indicate which variety of a or e or whatever it is but we're used to doing that already in english. (for example, "read" could be pronounced red or reed, depending on the context.) a limited number of short forms. This is the part 4 of the "gregg" shorthand course, in this video we are going to have a look at joined vowels. R and l rest on the line of writing as a saucer would rest on a table. the deep part of the curve in k and in g is at the end; in r and l, at the beginning, as indicated by arrows. k and r are the same size. the same is true of g and l. correctly written, r and l look like k and g when the paper is turned upside down. The stroke for “v” is a bit longer yet. when it comes to vowels, “a” is a large circle and “e” is a smaller circle. this leaves you with patterns to learn. like this: the next principle is the omission of silent letters and even some common words. for example, if you’re writing the word “safe,” the final “e” is silent.
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