About
Centennial Gregg Shorthand
Tenth Edition
(1988-Present)
This series is the current standard of Gregg
Shorthand. It is of a more sensible difficulty than Series
90. Practically, it is a revival of Diamond Jubilee with several
differences. This series brought back the idea of letting
one brief form outline represent more than one word, thus the word
during was brought back.
There are 139
brief forms that represent 162 words. The system is closer
to Diamond Jubilee than any other series. In comparison to
Diamond Jubilee, a few changes were made:
Any, convenience, direct,
office, privilege, property, responsible,
and usual were re-added;
Anniversary, appropriate,
communicate, equip, executive, equivalent,
incorporate, insurance, Ms., product,
recommend, reluctance, and reluctant
were added;
Electric, include, and
program were classified as brief forms;
How, purpose, put,
shall, such, situation, those,
upon, use, why, and yet were
removed from the brief form list.
The word work was changed back into
its original form, r k, and several words were edited
into different outlines.
With Centennial Gregg Shorthand, good speed
was once again attainable. Speeds of 150 WPM are frequently
reached among those people who have learned the system and practice
it well.
This series was a revival attempt by the authors
of Gregg to make the Light-Line Phonography popular again after
Series 90 ruined its reputation. It is unfortunate that the
final textbook on Centennial Gregg Shorthand was the first one,
written in 1988. Society had, for the most part, lost interest in
Gregg Shorthand. A simple Google
search will tell you the dearth of information found on Shorthand
today. While several entries appear, few have substance at
all. High schools, when finding how unbountiful the Series
90 version of Gregg Shorthand was, simply ended the Gregg Shorthand
program altogether, without even giving Centennial a chance.
Regardless of the fall of Gregg Shorthand,
Centennial shorthand still is able to record speech onto paper with
good accuracy and speed. This version seems well suited for
today's society, with changes like the removal of must
for the modern title Ms., which is becoming commoner as
times progress. This system maintains its ease of learning
and its practicality in the modern world.
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