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title: Shorthand
tags:
  - topic/shorthand
  - type/encyclopedia-entry
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# Shorthand

Shorthand is a form of handwriting using alternate glyphs
designed to facilitate faster transcription.

It is known by many other names,
and may be more accurately called _stenography_,
but [[stenography]] is more widely understood
as the method practiced by modern court stenographers:
typing using a special chording keyboard.

[[gregg-notehand]]