[GreenKeys] misleading definition

Charles Ring W3NU charlesr at infonline.net
Sun Oct 8 09:05:21 EDT 2006


from the current Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, whose makers 
should know better:

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Main Entry: teletypewriter
Function:noun
Date:1903

 : a printing device resembling a typewriter that is used to send and 
receive telephonic signals
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If I came to this with no knowledge of the matter, I would think it's a 
voice-to-text system.

Their 1933 unabridged dictionary does much better with "a form of 
printing telegraph resembling a typewriter". Later I will look in my 
collection of older Collegiates.









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