mudwort, two of
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52863 52864 52865 52867 52866 52868 85599 85600 85601 85604 85605 |
Expressos Expressure Expretam Expretorum Expretus Exprimals Muddled Muddy Mudfat Mudwall Mudwort |
Will not be much Mud-dy Muddle-d-ing-s Get into a muddle Get out of the muddle * Matters are badly muddled On the 29th Twice Twilight Two Two of |
ex The Postal Code (Telegraph-Cable), compiled by Frank Shay and R. V. Dey. San Francisco, 1907
Columbia University copy, digitized April 23, 2009
pages 445 and 718
Clear as mud.
Gertrude Stein. Everybody’s Autobiography (1937)
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* Figures out of sequence in original.
R. V. Dey was private secretary of John Mackay (1831-1902), creator of the Postal Telegraph Company.
tags: clarity; mud; muddle; telegraphic codes
Gertrude Stein; F. Shay & R. V. Dey, The Postal Code (1907)