My birthday is “jovially”! I must share this with my two birthday-twin-friends.
code words for the days of the year
way back in the 18-whatevers when sending a telegram cost a charwoman’s daily wages, some enterprising telegraph operator found a loophole in the telegraph pricing scheme. yo realised that telegraph senders charged per word rather than per character—thus transmitting “it is on” would cost the same as “raynor is maschalophilous.”
anywhoosies, the telegraph operator then went on to invent code words for common telegraphic phrases.
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but what really floats my tugboats is that this book offers a code word for EVERY SINGLE day of the year, including leap year.
You’ve seen this, I bet. Look at it again!
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