'''Stenoscript''' or ''Stenoscript ABC Shorthand'' is a [[shorthand]] system invented by Manuel Claude Avancena (1923–1987)<ref>[https://ende.findagrave.com/memorial/49003273/manuel-claude-avancena Avancena's biography]</ref> and first published in 1950. ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'', perhaps erroneously, claims it was based on a system published in London in 1607.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/565305/Stenoscript-ABC-Shorthand|title=Stenoscript ABC Shorthand|work=Encyclopædia Britannica|accessdate=2014-11-14}}</ref> An unrelated project also called Stenoscript was written by George A.S. Oliver and published in London in 1934.<ref name="auto">Information retrieved from worldcat.org 2014-11-14</ref>
