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[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Side-excursion: OED gives only one sense for speako

[Begin OED excerpt]
speako, n. = speakeasy, n.
[End OED excerpt]

The first OED citation is from 1931. Here is a 1930 citation for this
definition.

Date: July 29, 1930
Newspaper: Daily News
Newspaper Location: New York, New York
Article: Party Set Back In Its Drinking By Nova Scotia
Quote Page 8, Column 2
Database: Newspapers.com
https://www.newspapers.com/image/413218680/

[Begin excerpt]
An election was in progress, and even the town's speakeasies were
closed, so that the voters wouldn't dally on their way to the polls .
. .

It reminded them of the dear old U.S.A. with one exception. When the
speakos are closed here, they are impenetrable, fore and aft.
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 10:20 AM ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> James Landau wrote:
> > Google News on my cell phone read:
> > "After refusing to give the officer his idea, the man
> > was put in the back of a police cruiser"
>
> Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> > I'd say it meant ID, or is that just my id talking?...
>
> The transition from "ID" to "idea" may have occurred when a journalist
> employed automated voice transcription on spoken electronic notes.
> This type of error might be called a "speako" instead of a "typo".
> But there seems to be disagreement about what "speako" means.
>
> Here is a definition from NetLingo:
> https://www.netlingo.com/word/speako.php
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> speako
> Slang for a typo made by a speech recognition program.
> [End excerpt]
>
> Here is a definition from Wiktionary:
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/speako
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> speako (plural speakos)
> (informal) A mistake made when speaking, for example saying the wrong
> word accidentally.
> [End excerpt]
>
> Interestingly, the  citation presented in the Wiktionary entry fits
> the sense given in NetLingo.
>
> [Begin citation from Wiktionary]
> 1999, Transportation & Distribution, volume 40, page 4:
> In other words, you made a "speako" rather than a "typo." Speech
> systems these days are typically interactive, allowing for
> verification of input.
> [End citation from Wiktionary]
>
> Garson

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