cables

[Paul Frank]

The OED defines "cable" as "cablegram" and "cablegram" as "A message
sent by submarine telegraph cable." The New Oxford American Dictionary
defines cable and cablegram as "a telegraph message sent by cable."

Is that what the cables and diplomatic cables Wikileaks has been publishing are?

Paul

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