[CW] Origin of Cootie Key

[Kate Hutton]

On a childhood playground in the US ... if you accuse some kid of having
"cooties" you mean they have lice.  So a cootie maybe a less fancy "bug"?

73 Kate K6HTN

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 9:11 PM Atsu(JE1TRV) <je1trv at a1lab.jp> wrote:

> The sideswiper key or double speed key is sometimes called as “cootie key”
> I want to know the meaning of “cootie”.
> Thank you in advance
> 73+88
> Atsu, JE1TRV
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