“143” in Morse Code

Pager-era code for "I love you" — 1, 4, 3 counts the letters in each word. It predates texting by decades: lighthouse keepers at Boston’s Minot’s Ledge Light flashed a 1-4-3 pattern from 1894, giving it the nickname "the I-love-you light". In Morse it runs ·−−−− ····− ···−−.

Letter by letter

To key it right, hold every dash three times as long as a dot. Leave a short three-unit breath between letters; the slash is the long, seven-unit pause between words. Want to hear it slower or flash it as light? Open it in the morse code translator.

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