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HTML

<p>
Regular text
</p>

<p id="horizontal">
Horizontally scaled text
</p>

<p id="vertical">
Vertically scaled text
</p>

CSS

p#vertical {
  transform-origin:0 0;
  transform:scale(1, 4);
}

p#horizontal {
  transform-origin:0 0;
  transform:scale(4, 1);
}