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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).