ring_for_giles: (conspiring)
Ernest Giles ([personal profile] ring_for_giles) wrote in [personal profile] broshaw 2022-09-25 06:35 am (UTC)

Sharky,

That's how we wrote telegrams when they were still commonplace. The practice started during the war, I believe, as a full word is far less likely to be lost in the conversion from radio code to writing than a single mark.


Certainly more than that, but I stopped counting quite some time ago.

Giles

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