The answer lies in how we communicated in the days before telephones. Up until the mids, there was no instantaneous way to communicate. A letter that takes just a few days today to arrive at its destination took several weeks then, as mail needed to be loaded aboard trains to make long distance trips, and it was delivered to and from those trains by horse-drawn carriage.
Delays were common at any point on this trip. This changed in after inventor Samuel Morse demonstrated the use of electricity to send electrical pulses over wires, called the telegraph.
While this revolutionized communication, it was still relatively slow since an entire sentence with dozens of characters could take minutes to send.
WX as an abbreviation was likely used very early on in telegraphy. Well, I wasn't sure so I checked and found something interesting: "WX is morse code shorthand for the word weather. Thank you,anyway. I know weather doesn't have an "X" but it's a Morse code. For example in Morse code PX stands for press and it also doesn't have an X in it. Thank you so much, I appreciate your kindness. The one learning a language!
So in many ways our modern social media, chat and texting has kinda created a whole new version of shorthand similar to when morse code and the telegraph became the first long-range form of communication. Even though, not many people use morse code the abbreviation stuck.
So WX means weather and my Twitter name and blog are wxbrad which really is shorthand for Weather Brad. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address. Therefore, your suggestion of new acronyms is highly welcome! You can further scroll down and click the language menu to find meanings of WX in other 42 languages.
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