Examples The now-obsolete American Morse ("Railroad Morse") is different from the International Morse Code currently in use for radio telegraphy. With the American code it far more difficult to avoid timing errors of this sort , because there were several more  symbol timings than there are in the international code. For instance, the international code has only two symbols, dots and dashes , but the American code had three lengths of dash and two lengths of spaces between dots. For example, the dashes used  L () and T () in American Morse are distinct. Also, in the international code the space between symbols within a character is always the same, but American Morse has two different spaces. The letters S (), C (), and R () all consist of three dots, but the timing is different in each case. Example of an American Morse code message becoming corrupted with incorrect element timings Another  example given in the literature is becoming . One commentator has called this the 19th century autocorrect.
Examples The now-obsolete American Morse ("Railroad Morse") is different from the International Morse Code currently in use for radio telegraphy. With American Morse it was far more difficult to avoid timing errors , because there were several more close symbol timings than there are in International Morse; International Code has only two symbols, dits () and dahs () , but the American code had three lengths of dash and two lengths of spaces between dots. For example, the dashes used for L () and T () in American Morse are distinct. Also, in International Morse the space between symbols within a character is always the same, but American Morse has two different spaces. For example, the letters S (), C (), and R () all consist of three dits, but with slightly different timing between the dits in each case. Example of an American Morse code message becoming corrupted with incorrect element timings Another American Morse example given in the literature is becoming . One commentator has called this the 19th century autocorrect.
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