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May 23rd 08, 09:43 PM
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HQ-145 Opinions?
"Bert Hyman" wrote in message ... (COLIN LAMB) wrote in : Most of the acronyms or abbreviations were recognized, but one that caught me by surprise was "Pascoela = Natives have plundered everything from the wreck". Not too sure it would be useful today. I am guessing Pascoela is an acronym from another language. That's not an acronym or abbreviation but a code, intended to hide the meaning of the message. Pascoela is the Portugese name for Easter Monday (I think). http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~reedsj/codebooks.html Until about 1905 the vast majority of code books supplied actual dictionary words (or artificial words) as their code words, such as ``Snatch = Sutter Packing Co., Yuba City, Cal.'' in the private code of the California Fruit Canners' Association, or ``Pascoela = Natives have plundered everything from the wreck,'' in the very popular general-purpose ABC Code, some supplied number equivalents -- sometimes instead of, and sometimes in addition to-- the code word equivalents. But in the first decade of this century code books began appearing with code words which were meaningless and often unpronounceable fixed length groups of letters, usually of five letters. Thus, in a later edition of the ABC Code we have ``ewvgl = Pascoela = Natives have plundered everything from the wreck'' and so on. -- Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | I found a scanned copy of the "Philips Code" on the web, don't remember where. The Philips Code was a compilation of the abreviations used by telegraphers and includes those for commerce and press use. It will show you the origin of currently used CW abreviations like 73 and 88 adn SK, which is really the number 30 translated from American morse. Word codes, usually five letter combinations, were introduced to reduce cost for transmission and also increase speed especially via cable. Two widely used ones were the ABC code and Bentley's Code. I don't know if anyone has scanned and posted either. Both ABC and Bentley's went through many editions with additional groups added for new terms in the same way that dictionaries add new words. Each group could stand for a whole sentence. I have an ABC code book in deep storage somewhere. -- --- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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