Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!usenet.goja.nl.eu.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Morse Code Day (27 April)
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2024 23:07:27 +1200
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 8
Message-ID: <v0lalm$10qv1$3@dont-email.me>
Reply-To: r.clark@auckland.ac.nz
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2024 13:07:35 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a3d2d77a3274b79d711703a86be1f132";
	logging-data="1076193"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/SqenZBKSPojDSRRjlnrXgBiaV4Rz5y8g="
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101
 Thunderbird/52.9.1
Cancel-Lock: sha1:9VESAzlAb5Li/kqEcaD4Ar0uXmc=
Content-Language: en-GB
X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.eternal-september.org:119
Bytes: 1560

Birthday of Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), whose very useful 
invention showed linguistic awareness by correlating (inversely) the 
length of a code sequence with the frequency of the corresponding letter 
in English.

The famous "What hath God wrought" (no punctuation) message was sent in 
1838 from the Supreme Court room in the Capitol in Washington to Morse's 
assistant Alford Vail in Baltimore (about 50km away).