[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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