[3] According to a profile published in The News (the daily newspaper in Frederick, Maryland, April 8, 1968), Avancena was attending law school at George Washington University in the late 1940s.
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.
A Spanish edition was published in 1967, a book of dictation drills appeared in 1972 and Stenoscript dictionary was issued in 1989.
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.
Although it is generally slower to write in than more abbreviated forms of shorthand such as Gregg and Pitman,[4] it remains closer to alphabetic orthography.