Yuen Ren Chao writes:
It may be noted in passing that the symbol
•••---•••, with no spaces, was originally made up as an arbitrary symbol for distress and only subsequently read as symbols for the letters SOS, which strictly would have spaces between the dots and dashes.
Language and Symbolic Systems, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968), p. 199.
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