Comments on: This is not in code http://talkwordy.com/2008/09/29/this-is-not-in-code/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:29:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Lauren http://talkwordy.com/2008/09/29/this-is-not-in-code/#comment-238 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:18:49 +0000 http://talkwordy.wordpress.com/?p=306#comment-238 Something I read once a long time ago said that the word evolved from the fact that zero is a place holder, and in effect that’s what substitute letters do in a code.

Of course, it was so long ago I can’t even remember where I might have read that, so, who knows?

]]> By: Clare Bohn http://talkwordy.com/2008/09/29/this-is-not-in-code/#comment-237 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:44:50 +0000 http://talkwordy.wordpress.com/?p=306#comment-237 That’s interesting; I wonder how the meaning got from “zero” to “code”? I don’t see the connection.

Also I though it was spelled cypher, but I looked it up and that’s the British spelling.

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