Solutions to Lesson 19: How to Express "W" in Gregg Shorthand

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Let’s check our work from yesterday’s assignment.

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Reviewing the forms from previous lessons:

Charged, looked, clearing, schools, remembered,

purchaser, enough, surely, full, positions, questioned, care,

numbers, governments, asked, officials, complained, already,

values, believed, wanted.

How to Write “W” in Gregg Shorthand

At the beginning of a word:

When the “W” sound is at the beginning of a word, an oo-hook is used followed by the closest vowel sound. The hook is also used in words beginning with “sw-”

Why? Try saying the forms below out loud, and you notice that when spoken slowly:

we = [oo] + [ee]

way = [oo] + [ay]

wall = [oo] + [ah] + [l]

We, way, wait, waited, weed, weave, wave, wages, waste, weary, wheat,

wheel, whale, wash, watch, wall, wool, swim, sweet, swift.

In the body of a word:

If the “W” is expressed in the middle of the word, the sound is indicated by placing a dash under the vowel:

Quick, quit, dwell, queen, square, doorway, roadway.

Words that begin with an “ah-” or “aw-” sound followed by a vowel have a dot before them:

Away, await, awaited, awake, awaken, ahead.

Reading Exercise:

"A Day to Remember” (493 Standard Words + Bonus Letters)

The whole school was waiting for the big football game that was to be played that afternoon. We won every game and wasted no chance to get ahead of the other teams.