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The Phillips Code is a shorthand method created in 1907 by Walter P Phillips for the rapid transmission of press reports by telegraph.

The code consists of a dictionary of common words and their associated abbreviations. Extremely common words are represented by a single letter (C - See; Y - Year); less frequently used words gain successively longer abbreviations (Ab - About; Abb - Abbreviate; Abty- Ability; Acmpd - Accompanied).

Telegraph operators would often interleave Phillips Code with numeric "Wire Signals", to describe the article's priority or confirm its transmission. This meta-data would occasionally appear in printed newspapers, especially the code for "End of article" - 30.

see also: Morse Code

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