We speak English, not an adaptation
of it


I beg to differ!

Americans speak American and we speak English ... 'nuff said!

Peter, G3PHO

'Corse, IF you know MORSE (both American and Continental), you would
realize that the Ham "HI" is a contraction from the MORSE for "HEE"
..... .. from .... . . ! As is much of morse! Like e s for "and",
the origination for that was the AMERICAN MORSE sign for the symbol "&" !
And much more shorthand in it from a time that messages were charged for
by the LETTER, or WORD ! and for your info, two shortest messages were
(from a correspondant wanting to know about the sale of his book/article, )
sent the message "?" (without the quotes)! The reply (from the publisher)
was "!" (again without the quotes)!! As info, Jim NN7K