[CW] Origin of Cootie Key

[Richard Knoppow]

     That was the meaning when I was in grammar scool some 
seventy years ago. Not lice specifically but bugs. Also meant 
anything hanging from someone's nose. As in "wipe your nose, you 
have a cootie".  I am actually not sure how the name "Bug" came 
to be applied to speed keys but the name and the drawing of a 
beetle seem to have originated early on. Might be in the USPTO 
records, I just thought of looking there.
    I never liked the term cootie because of its childhood 
associations.

On 9/13/2020 9:48 PM, Joe Pontek Sr wrote:
>
> Hello, Atsu-san.
> "Cootie" was a model/name of a side swiper or double speed
> key. Young & McCombs sold them in the 1920s from IL, USA.
> I doubt there is any record of how they came up with the name,
> but it was their model name for their double speed key.
>
> I don't remember when cooties were a nickname for body lice.
>
> 161, pal. Joe, K8JP/K5
>
> On 9/13/2020 11:11 PM, Atsu(JE1TRV) 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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