Steno Dictionaries

This repository contains Di’s stenography dictionaries used by Typey Type for Stenographers. The dictionaries are in JSON format and use Plover theory.

How to use these dictionaries

[!IMPORTANT]
I highly recommend using Typey Type’s Full Dictionary instead of Plover’s default main.json. Plover’s built-in dictionary has not had substantial updates since 2018. The dictionaries in this repo are based on Plover’s but have continued to improve. Typey Type’s Full Dictionary is a combination of a set of dictionaries from this repo, available in a single-dictionary download.

If you want to use the underlying dictionaries in this repo instead of Plover’s, you have 2 main options.

The first option is that you can download each individual dictionary you want and add it to your own collection of dictionaries and turn each on in your Plover config as you need. Over time, there will be new entries in these dictionaries, so you may wish to download them again or look at the history for each file and decide what new entries you want to add manually.

The second option is to clone the repository and turn on each dictionary you want in your Plover config as you need. Over time, when there are new entries, you can “pull” the latest changes.

Which dictionaries to use

You will likely only want some of the dictionaries in this repo. You can read more about each elsewhere on this page. I recommend at a minimum:

1 large dictionary for vocabulary, such as dict.json.
1 fingerspelling dictionary, such as fingerspelling.json.
1 numbers dictionary, such as numbers.json.
1 punctuation dictionary, such as punctuation.json.

I would also suggest dictionaries to operate Plover and your computer, such as:

[!NOTE]
You could also add condensed-strokes.json to improve lookups (see ## Vocabulary Dictionaries), but you should be able to write everything in that dictionary already without including it.

Typey Type’s dictionary

Typey Type’s Full Dictionary is generated from this subset of this repo’s dictionaries:

The majority of Typey Type’s dictionary is from dict.json. It follows Plover’s default main.json dictionary with misstrokes removed from the top 10,000 words. You can use this dictionary instead of Plover’s.

A misstroke is like a “chord typo”. It’s when you mean to write one chord, but stroke another. Often, dictionaries have misstroke entries that are added when a stenographer frequently misstrokes an entry. For example, take the stroke TKPWAOD (meaning GAOD) which translates to good. Sometimes the stenographer may miss a key, so they could have a misstroke entry TKPAOD which would also translate to good. Then they are protected from these typos in regular writing. There are many misstroke entries in the default dictionary, and you must try to make sense of results when you look up words, instead of blindly accepting the shortest stroke.
— Plover project glossary

The aim is to remove all the misstrokes from dict.json to give new stenographers greater confidence in learning new briefs. The first step is to remove all the misstrokes for the shortest available brief for every word. If there’s a misstroke in a longer word, it is less likely to be suggested by Typey Type or dictionary look up tools.

If you notice any misstrokes, see the Contributing guide below.

Dictionaries

Read about each dictionary before using them. For example, you don’t need more than 1 fingerspelling dictionary. Here are all the dictionaries included:

† This dictionary contains fingerspelling entries for writing words. In rare situations in the past, the fingerspelled entries caused spacing issues. If anything like that happens again, please open a new issue and let me know.
‡ This dictionary is used for Typey Type behaviour and not really for day-to-day steno usage.

English Dictionaries

A main dict.json dictionary, containing many English words using briefs and phonetic strokes, but contains fewer misstrokes.
You may want to use condensed-strokes.json to improve lookups (see ## Vocabulary Dictionaries).
A top-10000-project-gutenberg-words.json dictionary, containing 10,000 common words from Project Gutenberg. This is a great starter dictionary. It is also used by Typey Type to indicate the preferred outline for the top 10,000 words.
- If you’re using dict.json, you won’t need top-10000-project-gutenberg-words.json.

Previously, this project contained top-100-words.json and top-1000-words.json dictionaries, which were subsets of top-10000-project-gutenberg-words.json. Keeping them in sync was a waste of time and the top 100 and top 1000 words dictionaries are no longer needed to generate their lessons.

Previously, this project contained a google-10000-english.json dictionary, including 10,000 popular English words by N-grams. That’s now been retired. You can still find it in the repo’s git history or Typey Type’s community lessons spreadsheet. Credit goes to Josh Kaufman’s typing word list from Google’s Trillion Word Corpus.

Misstrokes and bad habits

The misstrokes.json dictionary is an automated dictionary created from entries deleted out of dict.json that haven’t been moved to other dictionaries.
The bad-habits.json dictionary is a hand-created dictionary that contains misstrokes (particularly ones you might want to keep for auto-correct). It also contains strokes that are not exactly misstrokes but for some reason are not “preferred” to hide them from Typey Type or stroke look up tools.

Plover dictionaries

The main plover-use.json helps you use the Plover app itself as well as managing spacing and casing in Plover:

"TPHR*URB": "{}",: Cancels formatting of next word
"#: {*+}: repeats the previous stroke
"#*: {*}: toggles the asterisk key on the previous stroke
"S-P: {^ ^}: produces a space
"KPA: {-|}: forces the first letter of the next word to be uppercase
"HRO*ER: {>}: forces the first letter of the next word to be lowercase
~~"{^ ^}: inserts space without affecting case~~
~~"{^}: suppresses a space without affecting case~~
"TK*LS: {^^}: removes a space without affecting case
"KPA*Z: {*-|}: retrospectively capitalise/uppercase first letter
"KPA*EUZ: {*>}: retrospectively lowercase first letter
"KPA*EZ: {*<}: retrospectively uppercase all letters
"AFPS: {*?}: retrospectively inserts a space
"TK-FPS: {*!}: retrospectively remove space
"KPA*E: {<}: forces the next letter to be uppercase
"KPA*EU: {^}{<}: suppresses a space and forces the next letter to be uppercase
"KPA*L: {<}: uppercases the next word
"KW-GS: {~|\"^}: carries the capital letter across the next quotation mark
"KR-GS: {^~|\"}: carries the capital letter across the next quotation mark
"PREPB: {~|(^}: carries the capital letter across the next parenthesis
"PR*EPB: {^~|)}: carries the capital letter across the next parenthesis
"HRO*ERZ: {MODE:LOWER}: switches to lowercase mode so all letters are lowercase
"K-BGS: {MODE:CAMEL}: switches to camelCase mode, so spaces are suppressed and subsequent words are capitalised
"KA*PS: {MODE:CAPS}: switches to all caps or uppercase mode so all letters are uppercase
"KHRAO*ER: {MODE:CLEAR}: clears all mode settings
"KPHA*PLD: {MODE, }: sets a custom space mode that replaces all spaces with spaces (normal spacing—you can swap the space character for any character)
"SPAO*EUPBL: {MODE:LOWER} {MODE-}: switches to lowercase mode and sets the spaces to hyphens for a kind of “spinal case”
"STPHA*EUBG: {MODE:SNAKE}: switches to snake case mode so all spaces are replaced with underscores
"TAO*EULT: {MODE:TITLE}: switches to title case mode so each word is capitalised
"TPHO*EFP: {MODE}: sets to a custom space mode that replaces all spaces with nothing, suppressing spaces
"R*EFT: {MODE:RESET}: resets all case and spacing modes
"R*EFDZ: {MODE:RESET_CASE}: resets case modes
"R*EFTS: {MODE:RESET_SPACE}: resets spacing modes
"TKUPT": "{PLOVER:ADD_TRANSLATION}",: opens Plover’s add translation window
"PHRAOBG": "{PLOVER:LOOKUP}",: opens Plover’s lookup window
"PHREUG": "{PLOVER:CONFIGURE}",: opens Plover’s configuration
"PHREUT/PHREUT": "{PLOVER:QUIT}",: quits Plover
"PHROEUBGS": "{PLOVER:FOCUS}",: brings Plover to the front (window focus)
"PHROF": "{PLOVER:SUSPEND}",: disables Plover’s steno behaviour
"PHROLG": "{PLOVER:TOGGLE}",: toggles Plover’s steno behaviour between on and off
"PHROPB": "{PLOVER:RESUME}",: enables Plover’s steno behaviour

Vocabulary Dictionaries

nouns.json contains a few hundred additional words.
proper-nouns.json contains a few hundred proper nouns.
condensed-strokes.json contains entries made up of strokes using existing words, prefixes, suffixes, and punctuation strokes. It can be useful for improving word lookups, but it is not needed to write the words.
It can cause spacing issues in rare situations, so you may want to add it to your Plover config in a certain order so that it is overwritten by the other dictionaries. There are a small number of entries in this dictionary that rely on Plover’s orthography rules for the condensed strokes to produce the entry’s translation.
condensed-strokes-fingerspelled.json is a tiny dictionary that contains only fingerspelled entries to improve Typey Type hints. I intend to make this dictionary redundant and completely delete it in the future.

[!NOTE]
Historically, the condensed-stroke dictionaries used to cause spacing issues in rare fingerspelling situations. If anything like that happens again, please open a new issue and let me know.

Fingerspelling Dictionaries

Based on Plover’s default main.json dictionary, this repo contains 2 alternative fingerspelling dictionaries:

A fingerspelling-FPLT.json dictionary, using fingerspelled letters on the left hand and -FPLT on the right hand.
A fingerspelling-RBGS.json dictionary, using fingerspelled letters on the left hand and -RBGS on the right hand.

This dictionary lets you navigate and edit text efficiently on a Mac. You can move the cursor by letter, word, or line, select while doing so, and also backspace or forward delete by character, word, or line.

To use the following briefs, copy the navigation.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config:

As per Plover’s default, you use -R, -P, -B, and -G for left, up, down, and right.

Use STPH- to move by character, STPH-RB to jump a word left, and STPH-BG to jump a word right.

Use KPH- to use Command ⌘, jumping to line beginning and ending, file top and bottom.

Use STP- (shift) to select characters with movement keys. Again, -RB and -BG work by word.

Use SHR- (select) to select words with the movement keys. (This and the strokes described above actually add redundant strokes for selecting whole words to the left and right.)

Use PW* and -F, -FP, or -FPL for backspacing a character, a word, or a line.

Use PW* and -R, -RB, or -RBG for forward deleting a character, a word, or a line.

Use KPHR- for Command + Option (⌘⌥) movements (usually for navigating tabs and file trees).

Use SP-B to space up/forward and SP-P to space down/backward. That is, in the browser use the former stroke to page up and the latter to page down (this is using ⇧Space).

Use THRAB for ⌥ ⇓ and THRAP for ⌥ ⇑.

The complementary tabbing.json dictionary also lets you switch tabs, windows, and apps.

Use TW- and a direction for tabbing.

Adding -F/-L gives you ⌘⇧[ / ⌘⇧] to switch tabs forward and backward.
Adding -B/-P gives you ⌘` / ⌘⇧` to switch windows forward and backward.
Adding -G/-R gives you ⌘Tab / ⌘⇧Tab to switch applications forward and backward.
Adding -FB/-LG gives you ⌘[ / ⌘] to navigate forwards and backwards in a browser.
Adding a star to TW*G gives you ⌘TabTab to switch 2 applications.

Computer Powerups Dictionary

This dictionary was designed for running commands on a Mac. Copy the computer-powerups.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config to use the following briefs:

Tab and Space keys "STA*PB": "{#Tab}{#space}",
Mac Character Viewer "KHA*RZ": "{#Control_L(Super_L(space))}",
Shift Return key (⇧↵) "STP*R": "{#Shift_L(Return)}",
Command slash (⌘/) "KPHOEU": "{#Super_L(slash)}{^}",
- to show keyboard shortcuts in many apps
- to comment out code
- to show cursor in iTerm
- to show quick action command search in Figma
Command Shift slash (⌘⇧/) "KPHO*EU": "{#Super_L(Shift_L(slash))}", — kind of like ⌘?
- to show help
Command backslash (⌘) "O*EURPLT": "{#Super_L(backslash)}",
- to show 1Password
Command Shift backslash (⌘⇧) "O*EURPBLT": "{#Super_L(Shift_L(backslash))}", — kind of like ⌘|
- to emoji reply on Slack
Audio play "PHRA*EU": "{#AudioPlay}",
Audio raise volume "SROPL": "{#AudioRaiseVolume}",
Audio lower volume "SRO*PL": "{#AudioLowerVolume}",
Audio next "TPH*EGT": "{#AudioNext}",
Audio mute "PHAO*UT": "{#AudioMute}",
Monitor brightness up "PWROEUT": "{#MonBrightnessUp}",
Monitor brightness down "PWRO*EUT": "{#MonBrightnessDown}",
Keyboard brightness up "KPWROEUT": "{#KbdBrightnessDown}",
Keyboard brightness down "KPWRO*EUT": "{#KbdBrightnessUp}",
Command Escape "KPH*/TPEFBG": "{#Super_L(Escape)}",
Command Space "-FRL": "{#Super_L(space)} {^}",
Command Space (alternative) "A*FRL": "{#Super_L(space)} {^}",
Command Option C (⌘⌥C) to copy from clipboard history "KPWR*": "{#command(option(c))}",
Command Return "KPHR*R": "{#command(return)}",
Control Space "SP-LT": "{#Control_L(space)}{^}",
Option Escape for Speak selected text "SPAO*EBG": "{#Alt_L(Escape)}",
Screenshot selected area as a file "SKR*PB": "{#Super_L(Shift_L(4))}",
Screenshot selected area and copy to clipboard "SKR*RPB": "{#Super_L(Control_L(Shift_L(4)))}",

There are a handful of weird entries mapped to hard-to-hit QWERTY shortcuts like "{#Control_L(Alt_L(Super_L(Shift_L(i))))}", that are used by other applications, such as Alfred and Keymou, to map to the shortcuts to other behaviours.

Mouse keys via keymou:

These outlines are designed to be used with Keymou to operate the mouse via keys or add keyboard modifiers to mouse behaviour. They tend to use left-hand only steno keys because I use the mouse with my right hand.

⌘ click to select multiple items individually: "KPH": "{#Control_L(Alt_L(Super_L(Shift_L(8))))}",
⌘ click to select multiple items individually: "KPHRAO": "{#Control_L(Alt_L(Super_L(Shift_L(8))))}",
⌘ click to select multiple items individually: "KPHREUBG": "{#Control_L(Alt_L(Super_L(Shift_L(8))))}",
⇧ click to select multiple items in a row: "SPH": "{#Control_L(Alt_L(Super_L(Shift_L(7))))}",
⇧ click to select multiple items in a row: "STPHREUBG": "{#Control_L(Alt_L(Super_L(Shift_L(7))))}",
⌥ click to select alternative options e.g. expanded Wi-Fi details: "THRA": "{#Control_L(Alt_L(Super_L(Shift_L(6))))}",
⌥ click to select alternative options e.g. expanded Wi-Fi details: "THRA*": "{#Control_L(Alt_L(Super_L(Shift_L(6))))}",
Press and hold ⇧ for Shift + drag to move elements in a straight line: "STP": "{#Control_L(Alt_L(Super_L(Shift_L(5))))}",
Press and hold ⌥ for Option + drag to duplicate elements: "TKRAO": "{#Control_L(Alt_L(Super_L(Shift_L(9))))}",
Release mouse button: "TKRAOD": "{#Control_L(Alt_L(Super_L(Shift_L(0))))}",
Release mouse button: "STKRAO": "{#Control_L(Alt_L(Super_L(Shift_L(0))))}",

Punctuation Dictionary

Copy the punctuation.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config to use the following briefs:

. TP-PL => F-PL (full stop, spaced)
. P-P (decimal point, unspaced)
… SKWR-RBGS => SY-SHUN (suspension point, then capital)
… HR-PS => L-PS (ellipsis, then lowercase)
? H-F (question mark, spaced)
! SKHRAPL => SKLAM (exclamation mark, spaced)
‘ A*E (opening single quote/apostrophe, no space)
‘ AE (closing single quote/apostrophe, space)
“ KW-GS => Q-SHUN (opening quotation mark, no space)
“ KR-GS => C-SHUN (closing quotation mark, space)
, KW-BG (comma, spaced)
; SKWR*RBGS or STPH*FPLT (semi-colon, spaced)
: STPH-FPLT (colon, spaced)
: KHR-PB => KL-N (colon, unspaced)
- H-PB => H-PB (hyphen), unspaced
— TK-RB => D-SH (dash)
+ PHR*US => PL*US (plus)
= KWA*LS => QA*LS (unspaced equals)
= KW-L => Q-L (spaced equals)
* STA*R (star)
< AEPBGT or AEPBG => ANGT (opening angle bracket)
A*EPBGT or A*EPBG => A*NGT (closing angle bracket)
< HR*PB => L*N (less than)
TKPWR*PB => GR*N (greater than)
< PWRABG => BRAK (opening angle bracket)
PWRA*BG => BRA*K (closing angle bracket)
( PREPB => PREN (opening parenthesis)
) PR*EPB => PR*EN (closing parenthesis)
[ PWR-BGT => BR-KT (opening bracket)
] PWR*BGT => BR*KT (closing bracket)
{ TPR-BGT => FR-KT (opening French bracket)
} TPR*BGT => FR*KT (closing French bracket)
/ OEU (forward slash, unspaced)
\ SPWHRAERB => SBLAESH (backslash)
~ T*LD (tilde, spaced)
~ T*EULD (tilde, unspaced)
@ KWRAT => YAT (at-sign
# HAERB => HAESH (hash)
$ TK-PL => D-M (dollar mark)
% P*ERS (percent)
^ KR-RT => C-RT (caret)
& SP-PBD => SP-ND (ampersand)
_ R*UPBD or RUPBD => RUND (underscore)
| PAO*EUP (pipe)
` KH-FG => CH-VG (grave character, backwards)
` TR-RL => CH-VG (opening backquote, grave brief inverted)
` TR*RL => CH-VG (closing backquote, grave brief inverted)
Return key R-R
New paragraph SKWRAURBGS
Undo stroke *
Backspace PW-FP => B-SP
Delete space TK-LS => D-LS
Insert space S-P
Capital with a space KPA
Capital without a space KPA*

Note: I prefer this entry for minus from Plover’s original dictionary, but it’s since been replaced by “mountains” so it does not live in the punctuation dictionary:

- PH*PBS => M-NS (minus, spaced)

Punctuation Powerups Dictionary

punctuation-powerups.json contains additional punctuation briefs such as:
- suppressed space pairs of punctuation ("PWRABGS": "{^}<>{#Left}{^}"),
- spaces pairs of punctuation ("STP-PLS": "''{#Left}{^}"),
- smart/curly quotation marks ("TP-L/TP-L": "{^’}"), and
- punctuation that carries capitalisation ("KW-GS": "{~|“^}").

Unspaced Punctuation Dictionary

This dictionary uses common briefs for punctuation, but with translations that suppress surrounding spaces (before and after the punctuation) for more precise input. This might be handy for programming, for example.

To use the following briefs, copy the punctuation-unspaced.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config:

EPB/TKA*RB: –
EPL/TKA*RB: —
KH-FG: `
KR-RT: ^
KA*RT: ^
T*LD: ~
T*EULD: ~
AEPBGT: <
AEPBG: <
A*EPBGT: >
A*EPBG: >
HR*PB: <
TKPWR*PB: >
PWRABG: <
PWRA*BG: >
KWA*LS: =
KW-L: =
KW-LS: ==
KW*LS: ===
PAO*EUP: |
R*UPB: _
R*UPBD: _
RUPBD: _
H-PB: -
TK-RB: —
OEU: /
SPWHRAERB: \
P-P: .
HR-PS: …
A*E: ‘
AE: ‘
KW-GS: “
KR-GS: “
PREPB: (
PR*EPB: )
PWR*BGT: ]
PWR-BGT: [
TPR-BGT: {
TPR*BGT: }
TK-PL: $
STA*R: *
SP-PBD: &
HAERB: #
PERS: %
PHR*US: +

Note: I prefer this entry for “minus” from Plover’s original dictionary, which has since been replaced by “mountains”, but I include it in punctuation-powerups and punctuation-unspaced:

PH*PBS: - => M-NS (minus, spaced)

There is an additional stroke for an unspaced double quotation mark combining the opening and closing double quotation mark briefs:

KWR-GS: “

You might then remove the usual strokes for opening and closing double quotation marks from your dictionary, so you can still use these marks with spacing on demand. You might also replace these entries with smart or curly double quotation marks, for example:

"KW-GS": "{“^}",
"KR-GS": "{^”}",

You could then write Test “test” test. using KPA* TEFT KW-GS TEFT KR-GS TEFT TP-PL.

Similarly, with single quotation marks (not included in this dictionary):

"TP-P": "{‘^}",
"TP-L": "{^’}",

Symbols Dictionaries

symbols.json contains common symbols, such as degrees ("SPWO*L/TKEGS": "°") and trademark ("SPWO*L/TRAEUD/PHARBG": "{^}™"). All of the entries are prefixed with a “symbol” stroke, "SPWO*L": "{#}". The remainder of each entry’s stroke uses the stroke that would write the word instead of the symbol (for example, "TRAEUD/PHARBG": "trademark", and "TKEGS": "degrees").
symbols-briefs.json contains briefs for symbols, such as "TK*EGS": "°".
symbols-currency.json contains briefs for currency symbols, such as cent ("SPWO*L/KREPBT": "¢") and dollar ("SPWO*L/TKHRAR": "$"). All of the entries are prefixed with a “symbol” stroke, "SPWO*L": "{#}". The remainder of each entry’s stroke uses the stroke that would write the word instead of the symbol (for example, "KREPBT": "cent" and "TKHRAR": "dollar").
symbols-currency-culled.json contains only these currency symbols:

"SPWO*L/KREPBT": "¢",
"SPWO*L/TKHRAR": "$",
"SPWO*L/*EUR": "€",
"SPWO*L/POUPBD/STERLG": "£",
"SPWO*L/KWREPB": "¥"

Currency Dictionaries

currency.json contains briefs for currency words, such as AUD ("*AUD": "AUD",) and Swiss franc ("SWEUS/TPRAEPBG": "Swiss franc",), a currency formatting stroke ("K*RPBS": "{*($c)}", so you can stroke 34/P-P/5/K*RPBS to write $34.50), as well as briefs:

"TKHRAR": "dollar",
"TKHRARS": "dollars",
"PH-LD": "million dollar",
"PH-LDZ": "million dollars",
"PW-LD": "billion dollar",
"PW-LDZ": "billion dollars",
"TR-LD": "trillion dollar",
"TR-LDZ": "trillion dollars",

You might also like the related symbols currency dictionary:

symbols-currency.json contains briefs for currency symbols, such as cent ("SPWO*L/KREPBT": "¢") and dollar ("SPWO*L/TKHRAR": "$"). All of the entries are prefixed with a “symbol” stroke, "SPWO*L": "{#}". The remainder of each entry’s stroke uses the stroke that would write the word instead of the symbol (for example, "KREPBT": "cent" and "TKHRAR": "dollar").

Numbers Dictionaries

numbers.json contains the numbers entries from Plover

numbers-powerups.json contains extra entries like:

  "THOEUB": "{^,000}",
  "THOUZ": "{^000}",
  "THO*UZ": "{,^000}",

Conflicts:

numbers-powerups.json adds "K-PL": "km", and "K*PL": "{^km}",, which conflicts with "K*PL": "kilometer" added in a more recent version of Plover.

Exponent numbers

exponent-numbers.json contains suffix entries for writing exponents.

For example, to write the ² in E=mc², you would stroke KR*RT/2.

Based on the entry KR-RT for ^, each entry in this dictionary uses an initial stroke of KR*RT/ followed by the relevant number stroke.

Emoji dictionary

[!NOTE]
Rather than using my JSON emoji dictionary, I recommend installing the Plover Emoji plugin using the Plover plugin manager to write any emoji.

The emoji.json is auto-generated by the Typey Type CLI. The approach is based on Ted Morin’s emoji dictionary.

The emoji entries in this dictionary start with a PHOEPBLG/ stroke followed by the strokes for the name of the emoji. For example, to write “keyboard”, the outline is KAOEBD, and to write the keyboard emoji, ⌨, the outline is PHOEPBLG/KAOEBD.

There are 3 additional entries in this dictionary:

"AOE/PHOEPBLG": "emoji", to write the word “emoji”
"PHOEPBLG": "{#}", to “do nothing”
"SPHAO*EUL": "🙂" a brief to write a smile emoji

On 24 Oct 2024, "PHOEPBLG/EG": "🍳" was removed.

At the time of writing, the generated emoji dictionary assumes you would write the following words using the following briefs, but these are not in the main Typey Type or Plover dictionaries:

{
"1234-": "1234",
"AEUR/ROES": "arrows",
"AOEUZ/KAOEU/KWRA": "izakaya",
"APBG/WEURBD": "anguished",
"AR/OES": "arrows",
"EUD/KWROE/TKPWRAF": "ideograph",
"HREFT/WA*RD": "leftwards",
"HREFT/WA*RDZ": "leftwards",
"KA/PWA": "kaaba",
"KO/KO": "koko",
"OE/TKEPB": "oden",
"OE/TPEU/KUS": "Ophiuchus",
"OED/*EPB": "oden",
"ORBGS": "Okay",
"PHA/SKWROPBG": "mahjong",
"PHERBGS": "Americas",
"PHOEU/KWRAOEU": "moyai",
"POEFT/PWOBGS": "postbox",
"PWEPB/TO": "bento",
"PWEPB/TOE": "bento",
"PWHROE/TPEURB": "blowfish",
"RAOEUT/WA*RD": "rightwards",
"RAOEUT/WA*RDZ": "rightwards",
"S*Z": "zzz",
"SKOERP/KWRUS": "scorpius",
"SPOEBGD": "spoked",
"TAPB/PWA/TA": "tanabata",
"TKAPB/TKPWO": "dango",
"TKAPB/TKPWOE": "dango",
"TKAPBG/KWRO": "dango",
"TKAPBG/KWROE": "dango",
"TKPWA": "gua",
"TKPWARDZ/PHA*PB": "guardsman",
"TKPWREUPBG": "grinning",
"TPH*/TKPW*": "ng",
"TPROUPBG": "frowning",
"HAPBD/SHAEUBGS": "hand"
}

You can check the Typey Type CLI source code for the current additions.

Australian English Dictionaries

There used to be two Australian English companion dictionaries, each intended to be used in combination with the default Plover dictionary. There’s now only 1.

One overrides the default briefs with Australian variations, and also includes Australian prefixes, suffixes, alternative spellings, and vocabulary. To use this dictionary, copy the dict-en-AU.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config after the default Plover dictionary so that it overrides default Plover briefs. If you want something like this, copy the current dict-en-AU-with-extra-stroke.json and remove the trailing /A*U from each outline.

dict-en-AU-with-extra-stroke.json uses a kind of suffix stroke, /A*U, after every default Plover theory English brief to translate the word to Australian English. For example, to write the American spelling of “empathize”, you would stroke *EPL/THAOEUS. Then, to write “empathise” you would add /A*U. That is, this dictionary’s entry for “empathise” is "*EPL/THAOEUS/A*U": "empathise",. To use this dictionary, copy the dict-en-AU-with-extra-stroke.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config after the default Plover dictionary.

Notes on Design of and Changes in the Australian English with Extra Strokes Dictionary

A*ER/A*U strokes the “aero” prefix for the Australian spelling of aeroplane
*EG/A*U strokes the “eing” suffix for words such as “ageing”
*LG/A*U strokes the “ling” suffix for words such as “labelling”
*LD/A*U strokes the “led” suffix for words such as “labelled”
*EPLT/A*U strokes the “ement” suffix for words such as “judgement”, “acknowledgement”, “lodgement” and “abridgement”
O*UR/A*U strokes the “our” suffix for words such as “humour”
KWRO*R/A*U strokes the “iour” suffix for words such as “behaviour”
Add “U” to O*R/A*U or TPHOR/A*U strokes for “nour” endings in words such as “honour” e.g. "HOPB/TPHOUR/A*U": "honour",
Add “U” to O*R/A*U or TKOR/A*U strokes for “dour” endings in words such as “candour” e.g. "KAPBD/O*UR/A*U": "candour",
Add “U” to O*R/A*U or KHROR/A*U strokes for “our” endings in words such as “colour” e.g. "KHROUR/A*U": "colour",

"PRAPL": "program", from Plover
"PRAPL/A*U": "programme", from Aussie extra strokes dictionary
"PRA*RPL": "programme", from Aussie vocab dictionary (this outline is not in Plover)
"PRA*RPL/A*U": "programme", from Aussie extra strokes dictionary
"PRA*PL": "param", from Plover
"PRA*PL/A*U": "pram", from Aussie extra strokes dictionary

Notes on Design of and Changes in the original, now-deleted Australian English Dictionary

Warning
The original dictionary this info describes has been removed. You can find it in the git history or follow the steps above to reproduce it.

A*ER strokes the “aero” prefix for the Australian spelling of aeroplane
*EG strokes the “eing” suffix for words such as “ageing”
*LG strokes the “ling” suffix for words such as “labelling”
*LD strokes the “led” suffix for words such as “labelled”
*EPLT strokes the “ement” suffix for words such as “judgement”, “acknowledgement”, “lodgement” and “abridgement”
O*UR strokes the “our” suffix for words such as “humour”
KWRO*R strokes the “iour” suffix for words such as “behaviour”
Add “U” to O*R or TPHOR strokes for “nour” endings in words such as “honour” e.g. "HOPB/TPHOUR": "honour",
Add “U” to O*R or TKOR strokes for “dour” endings in words such as “candour” e.g. "KAPBD/O*UR": "candour",
Add “U” to O*R or KHROR strokes for “our” endings in words such as “colour” e.g. "KHROUR": "colour",
For words such as “practice” and “practise”, the basic rule is that the noun form uses the “c” spelling while the verb uses the “s” spelling. Therefore, translations have been included for producing both.
- For example, Australian briefs for “defense” with an “s” will use S in the brief itself, while Australian briefs for “defence” with a “c” will drop the S, e.g., "TKEFS": "defense", "TKE/TPEPB": "defence".
- As another example, drop the S or use KRE to spell licence with a “c”, e.g.: "HR-PB": "licence", "HR-PBS": "license",
Use “AE” in strokes for Australian “ae” spellings such as “encyclopaedia”:
- The Australian spelling is used in words stroked with AE where it would normally use the long “e” sound stroke AOE
- Briefs form the Australian spelling, eg, “KAOEUPL/RA”: “chimaera”,
- Words starting with “ae” can be stroked with the prefix A such as "A/AOE/O*PB": "aeon",
- The Australian spelling of “gynaecological” uses briefs and phonetic strokes beginning with TKPWAOEUPB => “gyne”, while the US spelling uses strokes beginning with SKWREUPB => “jyn”

Australian vocabulary

New briefs have also been added for Australian diminuitives, flora, fauna, slang and more. For example:

"STRA*EU": "Australia",
"STRA*EU/KWRA": "straya",
"PWOE/TKPWAPB": "bogan",
"RE/PHOFL/EUFT": "removalist",
"STRAO*UT": "strewth",
"HROL/HREU": "lolly",
"TKPWAE/TKAEU": "g'day",
"RAO": "roo",
"PHABG/KAS": "Maccas",

Changed Briefs

The brief for “programme” is overridden by “pram”, requiring a new brief for “program”:

+"PRAPL": "pram",
+"PRO/TKPWRAPL": "program",

The *EG brief for “e.g.” is overridden by the “eing” suffix for the Australian spelling of “ageing”, requiring a new brief for “e.g.”:

+"AOE/SKWRAO*E": "e.g.",

Vim Dictionary

Copy the vim.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config to use the following briefs. Note, most strokes use STPR to indicate vim (SR => V):

"SREUPL": Phonetic brief for “vim”.
"SR*EUPL": Restore brief for “victim” using additional star.
Punctuation with suppressed spaces to run vim commands (see also: unspaced punctuation dictionary):
- "P-P": Unspaced period for vim’s “last edit” command.
- "T*EULD": Unspaced tilde for capitalisation. That is, ~. This brief follows format for tilde TEULD with additional star.
- "TPHRORB" => FLOSH: Unspaced dollar sign for end of line command.
- HR*PB: Unspaced < for left indent.
- TKPWR*PB: Unspaced > for right indent.
- KW-L: Unspaced =.
- OEU: Unspaced / for searching.
STPR and *, -B, -G, -R for vim style navigation keys hjkl:
- "STPR*": h
- "STPR-B": k
- "STPR-G": l
- "STPR-R": j
- "STPR*B": ⌃f to page forward
- "STPR*P": ⌃b to page backward

Move lines up and down in any mode:

.vimrc mappings are:

  " Move lines up/down using alt j/k when iTerm is set to:
  " Left option (⌥) key acts as Normal
  " In mapping, press opt/alt+j/k to type these characters
  nnoremap ∆ :m .+1<CR>
  nnoremap ˚ :m .-2<CR>
  inoremap ∆ <Esc>:m .+1<CR>gi
  inoremap ˚ <Esc>:m .-2<CR>gi
  vnoremap ∆ :m '>+1<CR>gv=gv
  vnoremap ˚ :m '<-2<CR>gv=gv

Briefs are:
- "PHR-B" => MLB: Move line up using vim style navigation k.
- "PHR-R" => MLR: Move line down using vim style navigation j.

"SPWAO*UT": Exit insert mode and start substitution. That is, Escape and :%s/.
"SR*F": Exit insert mode and run command to write buffer (i.e. save the file). That is, Escape, :w, and Return. Brief format follows brief for Save command "S*F".
"STPR*F": Exit insert mode and run command to write buffer (i.e. save the file). That is, Escape, :w, and Return. This alternative brief format follows brief for Save command "S*F" combined with brief format for most of these vim strokes using STPR.
"STPROEUFRL": Steno lookup shortcut that exits insert mode, yanks inside word to system clipboard (this might be Neovim only) using "yiw and runs my shortcut for steno lookup tool ⌃⌘⌥⇧s. Brief format combines vim brief and regular steno lookup brief STOEUFRL. To use your own shortcut, replace this part of the translation {#Control_L(Alt_L(Shift_L(Super_L(s))))} with your shortcut command.
"STPREFBG": Exit insert mode and prepare command to write buffer (i.e. save the file) and quit. That is, Escape and :x. Brief format follows vim brief format STPR and brief for Escape TPEFBK.
"STPR-FPLT": Exit insert mode and write unspaced colon to enter command mode. That is, Escape and :.
"STPR-L": Runs gt to go to next tab. Follows brief format of tabs from tab navigation dictionary.
"STPR-F": Runs gT to go to previous tab. Follows brief format of tabs from tab navigation dictionary.
Quickfix list “command do” to execute {cmd} in each entry of the list: "KHRO*D": "cdo",
Vertical split screen: "SR*EUP": ":vsp{#Return}",
Ignore case in search: "OEU/KRO*EU": "{^/\\c^}",
"SREUPL/KWRUPL": "vimium",
"SRUPBLD": "vundle",
"PWUPBLD": "bundle",
"PHRUG": "plug",
Single-stroke Control key (⌃) fingerspelling modifier collection:
- "A*RBL": "{#Control_L(a)}",
- "PW*RBL": "{#Control_L(b)}",
- "KR*RBL": "{#Control_L(c)}",
- "TK*RBL": "{#Control_L(d)}",
- "*ERBL": "{#Control_L(e)}",
- "TP*RBL": "{#Control_L(f)}",
- "TKPW*RBL": "{#Control_L(g)}",
- "H*RBL": "{#Control_L(h)}",
- "*EURBL": "{#Control_L(i)}",
- "SKWR*RBL": "{#Control_L(j)}",
- "K*RBL": "{#Control_L(k)}",
- "HR*RBL": "{#Control_L(l)}",
- "PH*RBL": "{#Control_L(m)}",
- "TPH*RBL": "{#Control_L(n)}",
- "O*RBL": "{#Control_L(o)}",
- "P*RBL": "{#Control_L(p)}",
- "KW*RBL": "{#Control_L(q)}",
- "R*RBL": "{#Control_L(r)}",
- "S*RBL": "{#Control_L(s)}",
- "T*RBL": "{#Control_L(t)}",
- "*URBL": "{#Control_L(u)}",
- "SR*RBL": "{#Control_L(v)}",
- "W*RBL": "{#Control_L(w)}",
- "KP*RBL": "{#Control_L(x)}",
- "KWR*RBL": "{#Control_L(y)}",
- "STKPW*RBL": "{#Control_L(z)}",
STPRO*RB or "RO*RB" to hit Return, Escape, and O for leaving cursor inside a function after writing a pair of brackets.
"TPH*EG" to move to the next markdown header and move that heading’s line to the top of the window using vim-markdown
"SROEUPBD": "{^}ys{^}", and "SRO*EUPBD": "{^}yS{^}", for yank surround using vim-surround
"KHRO*D/SPWAO*UT" to use cdo and s###g | w substitute with a write between each substitution.
"STPREG" and STPR*EG to go to next and previous errors (using :cn and :cp).
"STPR*EU" enter insert mode and suppress space.
"TPR*RBL" as a single-stroke brief to write ⌃] to go to a tag definition

Markdown

markdown.json is based on Ted’s Markdown dictionary with additional entries like fenced code blocks with languages specified, including js, css, html, bash, and vim.

Git Dictionary

Copy the git.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config to use the following briefs:

“git” TKPWEUT
“add” AD
“ “ S-P
“dict” TKEUBGT
“ .” P-P
“JSON” SKWRO*FPB
“status” ST*TS
“diff” TKEUF
“ —“ TK*RB
“cached” KAERBD
“commit” KPHEUT
“ -“ H*PB
“v” SR*
“log” HROG
“p” P*
“push” PURB
“origin” O*RPBLG
“master” PHAFRT
“pull” PUL
“{re^}” RE
“base” PWAEUS
“check” KHEBG
“-out” O*UT
“hot” HOT
delete space TK-LS
“fix TPEUBGS
“reset” RE/SET
“HEAD” KPA*E/HED
“^” KR-RT
“/“ OEU
“gitignore” TKPWEUT/EUG
“mergetool” PHERPBLGT
“checkout” KHEBGT

Ruby Dictionary

Copy the ruby.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config to use the following briefs:

“%>” *ERB/KHRO*EZ (ERB closeing tag)
“<%=” *ERB/KPEBG (ERB execute tag)
“<%” *ERB/O*EP (ERB opening tag)
“utf-“ *UFT
“utf-8” *UFT/#L
“UTF-“ *UFT/*UFT
“ARGV” A*RG/SR*
“ARGF” A*RG/TP*
“attraccessor” A*RT/KPES (attr accessor)
“attrreader” A*RT/RAERD (attr reader)
“attrwriter” A*RT/WREUR (attr writer)
“after_filter” AF/TP*EURLT (after filter)
“before_filter” PW-FR/TP*EURLT (before filter)
“ERB” ERB
“=>” HARB/RO*BGT (hash rocket)
“https://rubygems.org“ HAOEPTS/RO*EUB/SKWREPLS
“<<-“ HAOER/TKO*BG (heredoc)
“<<-ERROR” HAOER/TKO*BG/ROEUR (heredoc error)
“::” KHR-PBS (colons)
“.html.erb” P-P/HAOEPLT/ERB
“params[:” PRA*PLS/PWR-BGT
“rspec” R*/SP*EBG
“rspec-rerun:spec” R*/SP*EBG/RE/RUPB/SP*EBG
“rspec-rerun/tasks” R*/SP*EBG/RE/RUPB/TAFBGS
“regex” REG/EBG
“regexp” REG/EBGS
“rubygems” RO*EUB/SKWREPLS
“def” TK-F
“nokogiri” TPHO/KO/TKPWEU/REU
“flash[:” TPHRARB/PWR-BGT
“flash[:error]” TPHRARB/PWR-BGT/ROEUR
“flash[:success]” TPHRARB/PWR-BGT/SKES
“flash[:notice]” TPHRARB/PWR-BGT/TPH-TS

Technical Dictionaries

Copy the haxe.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config to use the briefs like: "OEP/TK-LS/TP*/HR*/P-P": "openfl.".
Copy the html.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config to use the briefs like: "HR*EF": "href",.
Copy the css-alignment.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config to use the briefs like: "TPHREBGS": "flex",.
Copy the css-declarations.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config to use the briefs like: "KA*LG": "calc",.
Copy the css-media-object.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config to use the briefs like: "*EUPBLG": "img",.
Copy the javascript.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config to use the briefs like: "TKPWET/EL/*EPLT/PWEU/EUD": "getElementById",.
Copy the jquery.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config to use the briefs like: "HRO*ER/SKWR*/KWAO*ER": "jquery".
Copy the react.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config to use the briefs like: "TH-P/SET/STA*ET/PR*EPBS": "{>}this.setState()",.
Copy the d3.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config to use the briefs like: "SKAEUL/HREURPB": "scaleLinear",.
Copy the python.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config to use the briefs like: "PAOEU/S*FR": "python -m SimpleHTTPServer",.
Copy the ux-design.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config to use the briefs like: "AOUBLT": "usability",.
Copy the sketch-app.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config to use the briefs like: "SK*EFP/PHR-P": "{#Alt_L(Super_L(Up))}", to move layers.
Copy the code.json file into your dictionary folder and add it to your Plover config to use various briefs relating to coding and the command line.

Other Collection Dictionaries

human-resources.json

Medical Dictionaries

medical-suffixes.json is inspired by Odds and Ends | The Plover Blog by Mirabai Knight

Di’s Dictionaries

I’ve started marking my custom dictionaries with di- or -di in the filename. For example, di-briefs.json contains my own personal briefs while briefs.json contains briefs extracted from dict.json that exist in the core Plover dictionary. Ditto with di-nouns.json and nouns.json as well as di-proper-nouns.json and proper-nouns.json.

Raw steno dictionary

The raw-steno.json dictionary is not recommended for day-to-day use. It is designed to produce raw steno output for the steno keys on a Ward Stone Ireland layout. That is, instead of -S writing “is”, it will just write “-S” and instead of * performing an undo action, it will just write “*”.

{
"#": "#",
"S": "S",
"T": "T",
"K": "K",
"P": "P",
"W": "W",
"H": "H",
"R": "R",
"A": "A",
"O": "O",
"*": "*",
"E": "E",
"U": "U",
"-F": "F",
"-R": "-R",
"-P": "-P",
"-B": "B",
"-L": "L",
"-G": "G",
"-T": "-T",
"-S": "-S",
"-D": "D",
"-Z": "Z"
}

When playing the Typey Type KAOES game to learn the steno layout, I recommend using this raw-steno.json dictionary as the highest priority dictionary in Plover. When you’re done playing the game, disable the dictionary.

If you want to use this dictionary and still have an outline to perform a steno undo action, add another outline to this dictionary like:

"#*": "=undo",

Contributing

If you notice a misstroke, please mention it. This will help future stenographers learning from Typey Type for Stenographers have a better experience learning stenography. You can use the Typey Type feedback form or create a new issue for each misstroke or set of misstrokes you find. Please make a note of the dictionary, misstroke entry, and expected or suggested strokes.

See the CONTRIBUTING guidelines to learn more.

Better briefs

When proposing better briefs, here are some suggestions:

Check your dictionary for similar strokes. There might be unexpected conflicts around your preferred brief.
Check your dictionary for similar word beginnings and endings. There might be a set of relevant strokes that suggest a better brief. There might also be similar words that need new briefs at the same time to be consistent.
Check for potential conflicts or word boundary errors, especially when using strokes used for prefixes or suffixes.
Ask the community for suggestions.

Looking for misstrokes

Words containing “b” with a stroke that is missing P or W is probably a misstroke. You can search for that with a regex like one of these:

/.*P[^W]\+[AOEU*-]\+.*": ".*b.*"
/.*[^P]W\+[AOEU*-]\+.*": ".*b.*"

Strokes containing OEU that aren’t used for “oi” sounds like “boy” or “oil” are probably a misstroke or a brief:

/[^A]OEU.*": "[^o][^iy]\+",

Plover’s dictionary

Plover’s issue 400 exists to report suggestions for changing the default dictionary.

Typey Type aims to:

“Access” and “excess”

As noted in this comment on issue 400, there are conflicts and inconsistencies around these briefs:

"KPESZ": "excess",
"KPES": "access",
"KPES/S*EUF": "excessive",
"KPES/-BL": "accessible",
"SEBLT": "accessibility",
"KPES/REUS": "accessories",
"SESZ/PAOL": "cesspool",

It looks to me like:

“acc-“ briefs are generally stroked “A/K…” or sometimes “SE…” while
“exce-“ briefs are generally stroked “KPE…”, or “EBGS/“ in long form,
words with a double ‘s’ are sometimes stroked with “SZ”, and
the “SES/PAOL” brief for “cesspool” could be used instead of “SESZ/PAOL”,

So I’d suggest:

“KPES” could be “excess” rather than “access”.
We could create a new brief for “access” using “SESZ”.
We could include briefs that use suffix strokes like “SESZ/-BL” for “accessible”.
We could change “accessory” to “SESZ/REU”.
We could remove “SESZ/PAOL”, to avoid word boundaries errors when trying to write “access pool” e.g. “To access pool facilities…”, which might otherwise produce “To cesspool facilities…” if "SESZ" were “access”.

The main briefs might then be:

"SESZ": "access",
"SESZ/REU": "accessory",
"SEBL": "accessible",
"SEBLT": "accessibility",
"KPES": "excess",
"KPES/S*EUF": "excessive",
"SES/PAOL": "cesspool",

Altogether:

"SESZ": "access",
"SESZ/-BL": "accessible",
"SESZ/-BLT": "accessibility",
"SEBL": "accessible",
"SEBLT": "accessibility",
"EUPB/SESZ/-BL": "inaccessible",
"EUPB/SESZ/-BLT": "inaccessibility",
"SESZ/REU": "accessory",
"SESZ/REUS": "accessories",
"SESZ/RAOEUZ": "accessorize",
"KPES": "excess",
"KPES/S*EUF": "excessive",
"SES/PAOL": "cesspool",

Removals:

-"SESZ/PAOL": "cesspool",
-"KPES": "access",
-"KPES/-BL": "accessible",
-"KPES/REUS": "accessories",
-"KPES/TO": "access to",

If these changes are merged in Plover’s default dictionary, we can restore these to [briefs.json]:

"KPES": "excess",
"KPESZ": "excess",
"KP*ES": "excess",
"SESZ": "access",
"SESZ/-BL": "accessible",
"SESZ/-BLT": "accessibility",
"SEBL": "accessible",
"SEBLT": "accessibility",
"SEUBLT": "accessibility",

“Honour”

Default Plover does not have an entry for "HO*URPB": "honour", so the only way to stroke this entry in Typey Type is to use the Australian English dictionary or fingerspell. If “honour” gets added upstream in Plover, then great, and this entry can be re-changed to “HO*URPB”: “honour”..

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License

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