Telegraphy was wild
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the era of the telegraph, was a lot like the early era of texting. each word cost money, so they used commercially available code books.
https://web.archive.org/web/20081231034800/http:/dtc.umn.edu/~reedsj/codebooks.html
I still have a "little book of txtspk" somewhere back in the days when texting was a "craze".
Yes I am old.