european languages
Preserved but no longer current.
The plan was immediately adopted and it soon became the most ambitious propaganda campaign of World War II, The Morse Code V (• • • — ) was featured in every B.B.C. broadcast to Europe; this was followed by the use of the opening bar of Beethoven's 5th Symphony which has the same rhythm. "Colonel Britton" (Douglas E. Ritchie, director of the B.B.C.
Era: ca. 1898 (Victorian)
Examples
Tatoeba sentence #545590 (CC BY 2.0 FR, tatoeba.org, retrieved 2026-07-31)
Sources & notes
Reproduced from Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898 edition, public domain; archive.org, retrieved 2026-07-31; OCR text, minor errors possible). Reflects the scholarship and attitudes of its era.
Common questions
What does “european languages” mean?
The plan was immediately adopted and it soon became the most ambitious propaganda campaign of World War II, The Morse Code V (• • • — ) was featured in every B.B.C. broadcast to Europe; this was followed by the use of the opening bar of Beethoven's 5th Symphony which has the same rhythm. "Colonel Britton" (Douglas E. Ritchie, director of the B.B.C.
Is “european languages” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.