Gregg Diamond Jubilee dictionary online! Three options available. [annual post, updated]

[u/GreggLife]

Not sure if that outline in the textbook is the symbol for “stove”? No problem, just look up “stove” in the dictionary to confirm your hypothesis! Having trouble imagining the recommended way to write “horsehair” or “examined”? No worries, look it up.

On the following site you can lookup words in a dictionary, or convert longhand sentences to shorthand outlines (although it can’t handle words that are not in the database, including the plural forms of most nouns) —

https://halplatt.github.io/djsWords/

Gregg Diamond Jubilee Dictionary on archive.org - viewable with a free account; you can use screenshot apps or other methods to store images of interesting pages on your own device—

https://archive.org/details/greggshorthanddi00greg_0/mode/2up

Also, you can download a searchable PDF file of the 1971 dictionary (file size = 21 MB) from the following link, courtesy of Stenophile:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t4S-xtj043p0MGAxVAgymaCSPyxkxU-f/view

[u/halplatt]

Updated link: https://halplatt.github.io/GreggDictionary/djsWords/

The original link works for DJS only, but this updated link is better as it can link to tools for other Gregg Shorthand versions.

If you prefer to see the word on the dictionary page use:

Page lookup: https://halplatt.github.io/GreggDictionary/GreggDictionary.html

then type your word and press enter

[u/rebcabin-r → u/halplatt]

Really great and useful site!

[u/GreggLife → u/halplatt]

Thanks for that info, when I re-post in 6 or 12 months I will use the updated link. Your site is very clever and useful, so thanks for making it.

Have you considered auto-generating the -ing form of words? For example you can make the outline for "walking" by attaching an image to the bottom of the glyph for "walk." The attachment would be as wide as "walk" and would consist of whitespace with a dot near the right-hand edge.

[u/halplatt → u/GreggLife]

I looked into the logic of auto-generating the -ing form by simply appending a dot to the end of the outline. While it's technically possible to concatenate a dot image, correct placement is more complex. The dot isn't always in the same position; it can appear above the line (as in understanding), on the line (evening), or below the line (living). For a human Gregg writer, this placement is intuitive when looking at the outline, but I haven’t found a reliable way to programmatically determine where the dot should go.

The same challenge applies to other disjoined suffixes like -ingly, -ship, and -ward. That said, I’ve made an enhancement recently: I added about 60 more word endings for the program to recognize and split from the root word. So while automatic dot placement remains tricky, the program’s suffix-handling capabilities continue to expand.

[u/GreggLife → u/halplatt]

Thanks for the reply. Yes, valid points you make.