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Numerous revised editions of the book were published through 1989, a book of dictation drills appeared in 1972 and a dictionary was issued in 1989. A Spanish edition was published in 1967. The system was taught in a few high schools and colleges although it is difficult to determine how many. A few dissertations and theses compared the progress of Stensocript students to learners of other systems.<ref>Information retrieved from worldcat.org 2014-11-14</ref>
==Writing==
Stenoscript is written using traditional longhand [[cursive]] characters with a few variations and special symbols. Lower-case letters are used for phonetically spelling words. Upper-case letters serve as abbreviations for common prefixes and suffixes, for example ''F'' represents "-ful" or "-fully." Vowels are written when they occur at the beginning or end of a word, but vowels within words are omitted: "bank" becomes ''bq.'' (The letter q represents the -nk sound.) Instead of writing -ed or -d at the end of a word, Stenoscript indicates the past tense of a verb by underlining the final letter of the stem.<ref>Stenoscript ABC Shorthand, 1967 revised edition.</ref>
The author claimed that a student of his system could "attain a speed of 80 words a minute with comparatively little effort" and that speeds of 100 to 120 words per minute could be reached after intensive study and drilling.
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