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'''Stenoscript''' or ''Stenoscript ABC Shorthand'' is a [[shorthand]] system invented by Manuel C. Avancena (1923-1987) and first published in 1950. Encyclopedia Britannica, perhaps erroneously, claims the system was originally published in London in 1607.<ref>
==History==
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According to a profile published in ''The News'' (the daily newspaper in Frederick, Maryland, 8 April 1968), Avencena was attending law school at [[George Washington University]] in the late 1940s. He objected to the steep [[learning curve]] of [[Gregg shorthand]] and dropped the shorthand class in order to devote his free time to developing a system that could be learned more quickly. After spending many hours in the [[Library of Congress]] studying stenography and word frequency statistics, he eventually self-published his first Stenoscript book and taught classes to promote his system.
Numerous revised editions of the Stenoscript manual were published through 1989. A Spanish edition was published in 1967, a book of dictation drills appeared in 1972 and Stenoscript dictionary was issued in 1989.<ref
==Writing==
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