Morse Code typo lights city skyline

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | July 12, 2009 | Dan Majors

[MrEdd]

So they don’t spell any better with Morse code than they do with the alphabet there? Sad really

[vetvetdoug]

Maybe ebonics? The way things are going that may be the norm.

[Roccus]

PING!!

[bornred]

Life resembling Idiocracy...

[RegulatorCountry]

Morse code in the night sky Typso ping, lol.

[jiggyboy]

Don’t be too hard on Pittsburgh spellers. I think there isn’t even a firm agreement on either the spelling or the pronounciation of “yunz”.

[SunTzuWu]

Sounds like we need a new czar.

[tet68]

No wonder the alien ships couldn’t find it!

“Take me to “P-I-T-E-T-S-B-K-R-R-H”

Nope sorry, yunz not from round hea?

[Yorlik803]

Is it “Redd” up or Red UP?
I will ponder that while eating my Jumbo sandwich and shooting gumbands at the cat.

[dragnet2]

Capitol Records Hollywood:

The blinking light atop the tower spells out the phrase “Hollywood” in Morse code, and has done so since the building’s opening in 1956. This was an idea of Capitol’s then president, Alan Livingston, who wanted to subtly advertise Capitol’s status as the first record label with a base on the west coast. The switch activating the light was thrown by Lyla Morse, Samuel Morse’s granddaughter.

[Tax-chick]

Typso ping! How do you spell “Pittsburg”? (Or does it end with H?)

[donmeaker]

more like “I had a dram”

[Paleo Conservative]

"P-I-T-E-T-S-B-K-R-R-H"

[RegulatorCountry]

I’m pretty sure there’s an “h” on the end, with no “k” involved.

[Bobalu]

When I see morse from a flashing light I can’t decode it unless I first convert it to a mental sound...it’s an automatic conversion so it’s not difficult.

[PAR35]

How do you spell “Pittsburg”?

In Cleveland, they used to spell Pittsburgh with two 's's.

[blam]

Give the teachers unions more money...that’s always worked before. <>

[theFIRMbss]

>more like “I had a dram”

Imagine getting a tattoo across your back and they spell it wrong! The tattoo, in Italian, is meant to read "Vivere senza rimpianti" (To live without regrets). Her tattoo reads "rimipianti," adding an "i."

[jwparkerjr]

At what age did you learn Morse code? I ask because I failed to do so as a Cub Scout or Boy Scout and by the time I got around to trying I think I had missed the golden time in a youth's life when such things can be easily learned.

I have often wondered how many learn the code as adults. Goodness knows I've tried, but it's simply escaped me!