Q: Origin and extension of "Finger-Fehler"

[Joel S. Berson]

Thanks, Doug.

At 3/9/2009 02:00 AM, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>If it's used repeatedly in English, it's English, I guess, at least sort of.

Depends on who uses it repeatedly!  I do (viz. frequent typing
errors, generally corrected before they reach this list), but
apparently not sufficiently the OED.  :-)

Interesting.  My Google (Web) search for "finger-fehler -chess"
turned up 5 hits -- all in German, and only one (I think) for the compound.

When I now Google Groups for "finger-fehler -chess" and -German, I
get 5 hits, the earliest from 1997.

Joel

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