hunt and peck

[Jonathan Lighter]

The phrase was alreadybeing used when they tried to teach me to type in the
sixth grade (1959), with poor results.

JL

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Paul Frank <paulfrank at post.harvard.edu>wrote:

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> The hunt-and-peck, or search-and-peck, typing technique used by
> policemen the world over is not in the OED. "Hunt and peck" yields
> 375,000 raw hits; "search and peck" 152,000. Many dictionaries include
> this term.
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