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This is a basic chart of the letters of this machine. There are, however, different writing theories that represent some letters or sounds differently (e.g., the *F for final v in the chart below), and each court reporter develops personalized "briefs" and alternate ways of writing things.
| English letter | English letter | Stenotype chord STKPWHRAO*EUFRPBLGTSDZ | Example | Comments |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Initial consonants | b |    PW |  |  |
| Initial consonants | c (soft) |   K   R | cell (KREL) | Use for soft c only |
| Initial consonants | ch |   K  H |  |  |
| Initial consonants | d |  TK |  |  |
| Initial consonants | f |  T P |  |  |
| Initial consonants | g |  TKPW |  |  |
| Initial consonants | h |      H |  |  |
| Initial consonants | j | S K W R |  |  |
| Initial consonants | k |   K | call (KAUL) | Includes hard c |
| Initial consonants | l |      HR |  |  |
| Initial consonants | m |    P H |  |  |
| Initial consonants | n |  T P H |  |  |
| Initial consonants | p |    P |  |  |
| Initial consonants | qu |   K W |  |  |
| Initial consonants | r |       R |  |  |
| Initial consonants | s | S |  |  |
| Initial consonants | t |  T |  |  |
| Initial consonants | v | S     R |  |  |
| Initial consonants | w |     W |  |  |
| Initial consonants | y |   K W R | yet (KWRET) |  |
| Initial consonants | z | S        * |  | alternatively, commonly chorded by the entire initial bank, STKPWHR, in order to avoid thousands of potential conflicts |
| Vowels | Short a /æ/ |        A |  |  |
| Vowels | Long a /eɪ/ |        A  EU | pair (PAEUR) |  |
| Vowels | aw /ɔː/ /ɑː/ |        A   U |  |  |
| Vowels | Short e /ɛ/ |           E |  |  |
| Vowels | Long e /iː/ |        AO E |  |  |
| Vowels | Short i /ɪ/ |           EU |  |  |
| Vowels | Long i /aɪ/ |        AO EU |  |  |
| Vowels | Short o /ɒ/ |         O |  |  |
| Vowels | Long o /oʊ/ |         O E |  |  |
| Vowels | oi /ɔɪ/ |         O EU |  |  |
| Vowels | oo /ʊ/ /uː/ |        AO |  |  |
| Vowels | ou /aʊ/ |         O  U |  |  |
| Vowels | Short u /ʌ/ /ə/ |            U |  |  |
| Vowels | Long u /juː/ |        AO  U |  |  |
| Vowels | See note |        A  E | pear (PAER) | used for words spelled with ea or a…e to disambiguate certain homophones |
| Final consonants | b |                B |  |  |
| Final consonants | ch |             F P |  |  |
| Final consonants | d |                     D |  |  |
| Final consonants | dz |                     DZ | friends (TPREPBDZ) | use only for words that end with ds |
| Final consonants | f |             F |  |  |
| Final consonants | g |                  G |  |  |
| Final consonants | j |               PBLG |  |  |
| Final consonants | k |                B G |  |  |
| Final consonants | l |                 L |  |  |
| Final consonants | m |               P L |  |  |
| Final consonants | mp |             FRP |  |  |
| Final consonants | n |               PB |  |  |
| Final consonants | ng |               PB G | sing (SEUPBG) |  |
| Final consonants | nj |               PB G | range (RAEUPBG) |  |
| Final consonants | nk |          *    PB G |  |  |
| Final consonants | p |               P |  |  |
| Final consonants | r |              R |  |  |
| Final consonants | rch |             FRPB |  |  |
| Final consonants | rf |             FR B |  |  |
| Final consonants | rv |             FR B | curve (KUFRB) |  |
| Final consonants | s |                    S |  |  |
| Final consonants | sh |              R B |  |  |
| Final consonants | sm |             F P L |  |  |
| Final consonants | st |             F     T |  |  |
| Final consonants | t |                   T |  |  |
| Final consonants | v |          *  F |  |  |
| Final consonants | x |                B G S |  |  |
| Final consonants | z |                      Z |  |  |
| Final consonants | shun |                  G S | nation (TPHA*EUGS) |  |
| Final consonants | kshun |          *     B G S | action (A*BGS) |  |
| Punctuation | Period |             F P L T |  |  |
| Punctuation | Comma |              R B G S |  |  |
| Punctuation | Question mark | ST P H |  |  |
| Punctuation | New paragraph |    P        F |  |  |
| Punctuation | Correction (asterisk) |          * |  |  |