The Phillips Code - The Shorthand That Fed the Newspapers Morse had a secret second layer: a dictionary of abbreviations for whole words and phrases. The Phillips Code turned press telegraphy into the fastest news machine of the 19th century. One code for whole words Published in 1879 by operator Walter P. Phillips, the code assigned short groups to the vocabulary of news: politics, weather, disasters, markets. A skilled pair of operators could move a column of newspaper text in minutes. The survivors His abbreviation for the President of the United States - POTUS - never left the language. FLOTUS and SCOTUS followed the same pattern. Every headline using them is quoting a telegraph operator from 1879. Translate any text to Morse code, play it as sound and download the audio free at: https://morsecodeworks.com/