Post office telegraph clerks have always been distinguished for their ingenuity in. inventing contractions when sending long messages. Some of these aro not too exact. "Wks," for example, might be works, or weeks, or oven wicks. Since the war, perhaps as a result of service at the front, some clerks have adopted phonetic spelling. It loads to weird results, as tho following literal extract will show. "In t istri o soel progress and t fit_ fr freedom and liberti wh caused so gt an upheavl in t cutri a hund yrs ago."
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 130, 29 November 1919, Page 8
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92Untitled Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 130, 29 November 1919, Page 8
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