Antedating SCOTUS (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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Walter P. Phillips _The Phillips Telegraphic Code for the Rapid
Transmission by Telegraph_ Wash, DC:  Gibson Brothers, 1879.


p. 59 col 2:
"Pot -- President of the."

p. 65 col 2:
"Scotus -- Supreme Court of the United States"




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> _Milwaukee [WI] Sentinel_ 12/6/1891, p 10 col 1 [Gale 19th Cent
newspapers]
>
> "For instance, the receiver's sounder will tick out the letters
"scotus."
> There is no meaning in this combination of letters, but the operator
gets a
> hustle upon himself as soon as he hears it and writes down, "the
Supreme court
> of the United states." "
>
> _Charlotte [NC] Observer_ 10/18/1892 p 1 col 4 [GenealogyBank]
>
> "The case then came to Scotus.  The case was argued last Tuesday."
>
>
> >
> > A slightly earlier cite is found at America's GenealogyBank.
> > 14 April 1895, _Birmingham(AL) Age-Herald_ 21/3
> >
> > Talking about the United Press "code" in use for about seven years
on the
> > telegraph-to-newspaper circuit.
> >
> > "In addition the more frequent phrases are skeletonized to the limit
of
> > safety.  "Scotus" is "supreme court of the United States;" "potus,"
> > "president of the United States;"
> >
> >
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> Caveats: NONE
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