UGLY WORDS.
PRINTERS’ TERMS. In the matter of ugly words the printing trade (which ought to “set” a good example) is one of the biggest sinners. If type happens to fall off the “stone” it becomes “pi” and has to be picked up by the “devil’’ for the journeyman to “dis,” or throw (if battered) into the “hell box,” where broken “slugs” and waste metal are kept. Type is “set” to so many “ ems ” measured in “ stick,” afterwards “locked up” in a “forme” with “quoins,” which are driven home by a mallet and “shooting stick.” If it has to be “stereo-ed” it has to be done by a “flong.” Every “father of the chapel” will shamelessly admit rhat he is familiar with long spells of “quod,” and, for that matter, confess to having been a “galley” slave for the biggest portion of his life.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 293, 20 June 1929, Page 7
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144UGLY WORDS. Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 293, 20 June 1929, Page 7
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