·· / ·−·· ·· −·− · / −·−· ···· · · ··· ·
"I Like Cheese" in Morse code is ·· / ·−·· ·· −·− · / −·−· ···· · · ··· ·.
Leave a short gap between letters and a longer gap between words. In writing, letters are separated by a space and words by a slash. At standard timing a dot lasts one unit, a dash three units, the gap inside a letter one unit, the gap between letters three units and the gap between words seven. "I Like Cheese" takes 89 units, about 5.3 seconds at a speed of 20 words per minute.
Meaning: Morse code for "I Like Cheese" (phrase)
What does it mean word for word?
Letter by letter: I is ··, L is ·−··, K is −·−, E is ·, C is −·−·, H is ···· and S is ···.
How do you pronounce it?
di-dit / di-dah-di-dit di-dit dah-di-dah dit / dah-di-dah-dit di-di-di-dit dit dit di-di-dit dit
What mistakes should you avoid?
Keep the gaps between letters. Without them, I ·· can be read as E and E · ·, which changes the message.
Did you know?
- The code used today is International Morse Code, based on a version Friedrich Gerke made for German telegraph lines in 1848. It differs from the original American code in many letters.
- Alfred Vail, who worked with Samuel Morse, gave the shortest signals to the most common letters. That is why E, the most frequent letter in English, is a single dot.
