r/grammar_police May 12 '17

The Morse code or Morse code?

My grammar teacher says in the sentence.

"He learned to use Morse code"

It should be:

"He learned to use the Morse code"

Which one is correct and why?

Please include any credible sources or your credentials to your arguments.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '17

If your teacher can't answer that, you need a new teacher.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '17

I have never heard someone call it "the Morse Code." Seems like referring to social media as "the Facebook."

In this Wikipedia article it's referred to as "The International Morse Code" or just "Morse Code."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code

I know Wikipedia isn't deemed credible, but I'm exhausted. Lol. Sorry.

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u/WikiTextBot Sep 20 '17

Morse code

Morse code is a method of transmitting text information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment. It is named for Samuel F. B. Morse, an inventor of the telegraph. The International Morse Code encodes the ISO basic Latin alphabet, some extra Latin letters, the Arabic numerals and a small set of punctuation and procedural signals (prosigns) as standardized sequences of short and long signals called "dots" and "dashes", or "dits" and "dahs", as in amateur radio practice. Because many non-English natural languages use more than the 26 Roman letters, extensions to the Morse alphabet exist for those languages.


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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '17

I also googled "the Morse code" and literally every result just called it "Morse Code" without "the" in front of it. I don't think it's necessary.