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Basic Stenography 1 by: John Robert Gregg

The value of Shorthand

Gregg Shorthand is one of the most valuable subjects you will ever learn. There are several
reasons why such a powerful statement is true.
First of all, shorthand is a lifelong personal skill which relieves one from the drudgery of
writing longhand. Shorthand makes it possible for most people to write three or four times faster
than their longhand writing speed. Over a lifetime, this saves a tremendous amount of time.

Lesson 1 (Day 1)
STENO ALPHABET:

(sounds of A, E, N, M, T, D, punctuation, paragraph and capitalization)

NAME SOUNDS EXPLANATION

NAME NAM e is silent

RIGHT RIT gh is silent

NAVY NAVE y sounds like e

STAY STA y is silent

FACE FAS c sounds like s

(A E N M WORDS)
The following words contain the long sounds of a, e, n, and m. The symbol for
each sound in a word are joined together to form a word, it is called outline.

ME MAIN AIM

MAY KNEE NAME

MEAN
PRACTICE:

1. I ________ to please 6. Meet ________at 3:00 o’clock

2. She _______go to the game 7. The _________gate is open

3. My __________hurts 8. His ______ is Jim

4. He did not meet ________. 9. He is not_________.

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 5. What is her ________. 10. I _______ _______ the dog.

SOUNDS OF T, D, words

Day _____________ Mate ______________ Team________________

Date ____________ Meet/Meat __________ Tame ________________

Deed ___________ Tea ________________ Ate __________________

Made ____________ Eat _________________ Aid/ Aide______________

Lesson 2 (sounds of H – ing, long i)

The shorthand symbol for the sounds of h and -ing is a dot. The letter H which almost
always occurs at the beginning of a word, is represented by a dot placed above the
vowel.

The sound of -ing which almost always occurs at the end of a word, is represented by a
dot placed closed to the end of the body of the outline.

Example:
Meeting ___________

H, -ing Words

He _________ naming ___________ taming

_____________

Heat ________ meeting___________ heading

____________

Heating ______ hate ______________ dating

______________

H, -ing practice

(A, E, N, M Practice)
1. I am to please - 6. Meet ___at 3:00 a.m.

2. She may go to the game - 7. The______gate is open

3. My _______ hurts - 8. His ______is Jim

4. He did not meet_______ - 9. He is not ________

5. What is her ______ 10. I _____ _______the dog

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PUNCTUATION AND PARAGRAPH SYMBOLS

Special symbols are used to represent the period and question mark at the end of a
sentence. Note that an ordinary commais used within a circle.

Period Hypen Question Mark Paragraph

Comma dash Exclamation point Left parenthesis

Semicolon colon right parenthesis

CAPITALIZED WORDS

May Dean amy Nate

LONG I Words

High ________ Mine _________ Night ____________

My _________ Tie __________ Die/Dye __________

Might _______ Tied __________ dying ____________

LONG I PRACTICE

1. He might write Amy at night in May.

(_______________________________________)

2. My deed is safe at night.

(__________________________________________)

3. Dean tied a fancy knot in my tie.

(___________________________________________)

4. The price of my deed is too high.

(___________________________________________)

5. My team ended the game in a tie.

(__________________________________________)

6. The date is in May. (______________________________________)

7. Amy might go out at night to dye her hair.

(____________________________________)

8. He did not dye my tie before the meeting.

(____________________________________)

9. The rate on my deed might be high.

(_________________________________________)

10. He might learn to tie his tie.

(______________________________________________)

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