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Phillips Code
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English
Etymology
en Walter P. Phillips its inventor = 1846 1920.
Proper noun
en POTUS
en SCOTUS
en 73
- Phillips Code
A shorthand for the rapid transmission of press reports by telegraph.
en w:William Safire Potus And Flotus The New York Times 1997-10-12 https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/12/magazine/on-language-potus-and-flotus.html 0362-4331 Some acronyms make it, some don't. In Phillips Code, WHU stood for “the White House”; not even Potus uses that anymore. (Coming soon, to replace U.S. Government -- Gotus!) https://web.archive.org/web/20250910172139/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/12/magazine/on-language-potus-and-flotus.html 10 September 2025
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