For quotations using this term, see Citations:fuckable.

To anyone who does not know the key, the five characters of the cryptogram are different but the genuine receiver is in no danger of confusion.

How! There's bad news. / I must obscure, and hear it.

Mary is informed that Polly is one of those hypocorisms, or pet-names, in which our language abounds. Most are mere abbreviations, as Will, Nat, Pat, Bell, &c., taken usually from the beginning, sometimes from the end of the name.