#telegraphic codes

  Echoic       In the absence of Enucleate       Act-ion   Exhaling       Alphabet Tunicate       — word not understood   Estray       Advised in error Excogitate       All   Oarlock       In hands of Narratory       Fate   Strewment       At sight Riptide       Position (Standing)   Roam       As far as possible Urceolate       2025

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ex The American Bankers Association Code “ABACO” (1951) i-xii, 1-340

back cover, 90º cw (link) Telegraphic Code between New Bedford, Massachusetts, and San Francisco, California, kept by J. and W. R. Wing. (1883) New Bedford Whaling Museum, via archive.org : link

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Abandon       We have arrived all right Abator       [Bark] A[dmiral]. Barker arrived Abbess       [Bark] Atlantic arrived Abbot       [Bark] Fleetwing arrived Abdicate       [Bark] John Dawson arrived   Abet       Whales beginning to arrive   Advice       Have offer for sperm oil Affable       Have offer for whale oil Affair       Have offer for whalebone   Affirm       Think some are selling sperm oil export Afflict       Think some are selling sperm oil home use Afford       Think some are selling whalebone   After       Getting along well here Against       Your family as well as usual Agent       When do you start for home Ahead       Start for home in a few days Aid       Start for home tomorrow   Aim       How much whale oil will be sent East in Vessels Air       How much whale oil will be sent East in tank cars

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6645 . drawing under-sheet; levels adjusted . 20240720

6714   Morass     Connecting lines 11390   Sand     In writing

ex Seaboard Air Line Railway, Telegraphic Code. May 1st, 1902.

  1 Alogador       Anything above Alogista       Anything below Alogos       Anything for Alojaban       Anything from   Alojando       Anything in Alojar       Anything on Alomation       Anything to Alondras       Anything under   Alongado       Have you anything Bendable       Away from

2 Caldanino       We see no chance Caldano       When we have a chance

3 Delegarian       What difference Delendum       What is difference between Delendos       What is difference   Delegando       There is no difference

4 Desmologia       Error caused by Desmonote       Sent in error

5 Ebranler       As far as Ebromagus       So far   Falerina       Inasmuch as Gaturda       Much more

6 Fodabunt       That kind Fodandum       This kind Fodatum       What kind of Fodicant       Which kind

7 Gubiarum       A question has arisen

8 Lentigo       If this is Letamino       For a short time   Lentous       In this Lentulum       This is Liberabit       The only time

9 Gregabit       Such possibility Gregabitis       The only possibility

10 Geangeld       Nature thereof Gebadet       Such nature Gebammel       The nature of which   Fomenter       Little is known Fomentons       Not known Fomentorum       Nothing is known

11 Leonibus       What do you think Linguiform       What is your understanding Longisma       What is the value of Loodoker       What is your view   Lucratam       See your wire Lucrionem       Your wire today

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selections (not all consecutive) from Virge Frank Houston, comp., AMSUCO Telegraphic Code American Surety Company of New York (1927)

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  Logarithm, This is best Logistic, This (that) is not Mealtime, Very high Meantime, Very low   Obtrition, Yes Fricative, No   Curlypate, Hardly know-s what to do (with) Ornately, & Currencies, Hardly know-s what to think (about) Ornithon, &c.

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  Desireth, High tide-s Desirous, High water-s Desirously, High wind-s Fenland, Low

Dialectics, How little Diallage, How long Dialytic, How many ties Diameter, How many tons of rails

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  Working -s       see also Combination, Still       ZAX 1 About       see also Just, With       GEX 2   Would       see also It, There       ZDO 7 Absolutely       see also Impossible, Necessary       GHY 0   Send abstracts of             —             GIB 2 Absurd             —             GIC 3   Abundant -ance             —             GID 4 Accept a little less rather than lose the business             —             GIF 6   Accommodate -d -ing -s       see also Regret       GRY 6 According -ly (to)       see also Matter       GWE 2  

selected phrases and “see also’s” from (Margaret Winifred) Keegan’s International Code (Second Edition, 1917) University of Washington copy available via Hathitrust

lines reformatted; no substance lost.

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mailing label (detail), delivering P. H. Winter, Hamburg, Private Code (2nd edn, 1931) for use with Soc.An.Dom. Scaramella, Salerno/Italien (grains mainly, and barley and oats, oil, rice, pulses, meat- and bonemeal, &c.) from which —

9042   yyf   Than 9043   yyg   That 9044   yyh   The   9045   yyj   Then 9046   yyk   There 9047   yyl   Thereagainst   9048   yym   These 9049   yyn   They 9050   yyp   Think

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