[quote=@Mammalia]
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I noticed that when I was trying to do something with phone ethics; when I was throwing it into a Caesar decoder it eliminated the second e and h.  I never thought anything of it, though. Now I realise I should have.
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Actually, that's not it. Phone ethics is the key, but encrypted not in an algorithm-based encryption, but a phonetically based one. The key (phonetics) was encrypted phonetically.