653.42: Gregg. John Robert. Gregg Shorthand Manual Simplified. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1956. 315 pp.
- 600: Technology
- 650: Management and public relations
- 653: Shorthand
- 653.4: Handwritten systems
- 653.42: English-language systems
One of the things that has always fascinated me about newspaper reporters is their ability to take handwritten notes of a meeting or an interview in real time, without interfering the flow of the conversation, and then reproduce it word for word in print. You can’t just write down the whole thing verbatim and expect to keep up. Turns out, they use a stenographic method called shorthand, and Gregg shorthand is one of the most used styles in the world.