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Digitized by the Internet Archive 2009 in http://www.archive.org/details/greggshorthandmaOOgreg Gregg Shorthand Manual Simplified John Robert Gregg L,ouis A, Leslie Charles E, Zoubek THE GREGG PUBLISHING COMPANY Business Education Division, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. New York Chicago San Francisco Dallas Toronto London GREGG SHORTHAND MANUAL SIMPLIFIED Copyright, 1949, by The Gregg Publishing Company.Copyrighted in the United States of America, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Italy, and Spain. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may notbe repro- ducedin any formwithoutpermissionofthepublishers. Oct. 1949-RD-200. Shorthand Plates Written by Charles Rader PUBLISHED BY THE GREGG PUBLISHING COMPANY Business Education Division of the McGraiu-Hill Book Company, Inc. Printed in the UnitedStates ofAmerica PREFACE Gregg Shorthand is the most widely used shorthand system in the world. It has been adapted to many languages in addition to English, for which the system was originally invented. The successful use of the system in different languages is striking evidence of the genius of the inventor, John Robert Gregg, in devising the most brilliant shorthand alphabet in two thousand years of shorthand history. Gregg Shorthand Manual Simplified is the basic manual of the system. It features a combined inductive and decductive presentation of the principles of outline construction in Gregg Short- hand. The arrangement of the material allows the instructor freedom to emphasize the principles as he wishes; several different approaches for varying the emphasis are suggested in the Teacher's Handbook. The Manual is organized into seventy lessons, each planned for the usual class period of forty to fifty minutes. The theory learning has been greatly reduced through the omission of several hundred brief forms and other similar memory forms, sixty-six word beginnings and word endings, twenty-six general rules or principles, and thirteen phrasing devices. As a result, the entire theory learning is presented in forty-eight lessons, each of which provides a substantially complete recall of everything previously presented. The remaining twenty-two lessons in the Manual contain review and dictation material. In Gregg Shorthand Manual Simplified the alphabet of Gregg Shorthand is presented rapidly and in an order designed to provide an easy introduction to shorthand for the learner. The Hrst shorthand character the learner encounters is the familiar longhand comma, which is the shorthand character for jf. Then the analogous characters for / and v are presented; they, in turn, iii PREFACE \V are followed hv the character for a, which is simply the familiar longhand cipher. The rapid introduction of the alphabet and the simplifications of the system make possible the early use of easy, graded business practice material. Connected matter is used entirely after the first week of instruction. At suitable intervals, beginning with Lesson 24, penmanship drills are provided and, beginningwith Lesson 37 and continuing ; throughout the balance of the book, is a feature that is completely new in a basic shorthand manual. In the lefthand margin of the shorthand pages are provided "reminders" of simple conventions of written English that occur in the accompanying shorthand context. These "reminders," illustrated in context, increase the student's awareness and knowledge of English essentials that are of vital importance in transcription. The simplifications of Gregg Shorthand and the presentation of the system in this Manual reHect the findings of research investigations and the suggestions of innumerable shorthand teachers. They refiect the illustrious teaching, writing, and publishing career of John Robert Gregg and the many years of close association with him that Louis A. Leslie and Charles E. Zoubek, co-authors of this Manual, were privileged to enjoy. The product of research, experience, and inspired, capable authorship, this new Manual of Gregg Shorthand is presented to the teaching profession and to the public with confidence and appreciation. The Publishers CHAPTER I LESSON 1 1. In shorthand, words are written as they are pronounced. Know is written no^ say is written sa, sew is written so. 2. The shorthand character for a is a large circle. The shorthand character shown below for s and z is approximately the size and shape of a longhand comma. The shorthand character for / is the same shape but about half the height of the space between the lines in the shorthand notebook; the v is the same shape but the full height of the space between the lines in the notebook. A SandZ F V o ^ ^^ say (^ ffaaccee saves safe / save y vase 3. The shorthand character for ^ is a tiny circle. The shorthand characters for n and tn are straight lines about the same length as an underscore under the corresponding letters in longhand. E N M see ^ ^ CHAPTER I 4. The strokes representing t and d are written upward. T D team neat —i^ seed A 7^ tame steam X^ feet X^ meet stain feed ^ y^ mate stay fade ^ ^ need seat fate 5. The shorthand character for o is very small. The curve representing r is the same size as the curve for /; the /, the same size as the v. O R c/ « ^ row sore ^^— stare ^ low soul store - — " toe wrote «— steal K- -^ dough tear s*:ale Z-^-^' ^ ^ no __^ tear stole y^"^ y^ snow 2-^ tore stone so ^ steer >^^ stove 7 LESSON 1 note / vote near mere kneel nail meal mail mole dear 6. The sound of h is represented by a dot written above the following vowel. O hay home hear hoe o' whole hail 7. Vowels may be omitted when they do not contribute to speed or legibility. leauJeeir motor hearer CHAPTER I LESSON 2 8. In Paragraph 2 one tinycurve was given fors andz. Another curve is also used for j and z in order to provide an easy joining in any combination of sounds. It is not necessary at this point to attempt to decide which of the two curves to use in any word; this will become clear as the study of shorthand progresses. The second form of s and z is given below. S and Z r r pay pair