[CW] Key name origin?

Mike J Maloney [email protected]
Tue, 28 Jan 2003 21:40:17 -0600


Does anyone know how or when  manual keys came to be called "straight"
keys,  and why is that that most of them are actually bent?   

None of the modern Webster's definitions of "straight" as an adjective
seem to fit with key.   Could it be just one more English word that has
completely changed meaning over time?

73, Mike, AC5P