Word: vowel
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...detecting and correcting errors by inspection. The code itself is in reality a language of eleven words, each of which is a monosyllable of two letters. The series represents the ten digits with an eleventh character. In these monosyllables any one consonant is invariably associated with the same vowel and is never used in any other connection. The two letters thus form a combination which affords a means of locating and correcting all telegraphic mistakes; for, if one letter is known, the one going with it can be at once found...