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What does HAND and SWALK mean, Ted? Also - I did think that LOL meant Lots of Love for quite a while, until my daughter put me right

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Sealed with a loving kiss

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Oh like on Valentines cards as a kid - of course! Well I do end a lot of my texts with an x, but that's a female thing I think.

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I had to look that one up! Take your pick from those on the link below
but I reckon it's probably the first one:

https://www.abbreviations.com/HAND

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Wow Baz...ok, then it depends on the context of the message. Most common one would be Have a Nice Day. I think I would type that out rather than do the abbreviations though.

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Thanks Arty, my post of the day.....

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Yes, it is the first one in that list used in 'internet / chat', as indicated. From my time in printing and publishing the usual accepted way to use abbreviations is with the initial use of the relevant phrase put in full followed by the abbreviation in brackets – have a nice day (HAND) – like everything else that has now gone when it comes to texts, e-mails and anything internet connected. The world has just moved on far too fast nowadays for correct usage.

Don't even get me started on 'spell checkers' and the ubiquitous apostrophe or I will be posting here all day long!

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Thanks! Foxy Loxy xx

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Pixie, you must be a teenybopper, compared with some of us!



Oddly, one of my gifts, from WBW (way back when), was serving as a Radio Man on a Cunard Ship.

Passengers loved to send messages home, and I would be pricing, sending & receiving these, in Morse, from out there on the Atlantic.

Messages were charged based on the number of actual alphabetic letters included (e.g. "miss you" cost seven, whilst "see you soon", cost 30 percent more).

AIUI (as I understand it) the telegraph systems, in the USA, had been similarly priced up.

Anyway, to cut a boring story short, you might spot that some telegraph senders would abbreviate, as we've seen.

Rumour has it that lots of naughty pennies might be made that way.

I used to wonder if those receiving the messages understood what they were saying!

In any case (upper or lower) abbreviations became standard fare!

I heard that some, on the big ships, were prosecuted, back in, the late 1960s.

Anyway, boring mode over, it's snowing outside, I'll go and watch that!

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Oh a lady never tells, Ted...but I'm over 50 and less than 55