Editing Morse code (section)

=== Unusual variants ===
During early World War&nbsp;I (1914–1916), Germany briefly experimented with 'dotty' and 'dashy' Morse, in essence adding a dot or a dash at the end of each Morse symbol. Each one was quickly broken by Allied SIGINT, and standard Morse was resumed by Spring&nbsp;1916. Only a small percentage of Western Front ([[North Atlantic]] and [[Mediterranean Sea]]) traffic was in 'dotty' or 'dashy' Morse during the entire war. In popular culture, this is mostly remembered in the book ''[[The Codebreakers]]'' by [[David Kahn (writer)|David Kahn]] and in the national archives of the UK and Australia (whose [[SIGINT]] operators copied most of this Morse variant). Kahn's cited sources come from the popular press and wireless magazines of the time.<ref name=Wythoff-2014/>

Other variations include forms of "fractional Morse" or "fractionated Morse", which recombine the characters of the Morse code{{endash}}encoded message and then encrypt them using a cipher in order to disguise the text.<ref name=Quadibloc-pp1323/>