Country Dictionary

Adverb form of persnickety

Don't be so persnickative about what I put on your plate. Speaker was born in Oregan's Willamette valley in 1933.

The # character also called: cardinal comment sign crosshatch crunch fence gate gridlet hash mark hex noughts-and-crosses octothorn octothorp pig pen pound sign resemblance resemblance resemblance sharp shibboleth square sulamit tic-tac-toe widget mark

Press the key with the crosshatch on it.

Less profane variation of damnit.

Dagnamit, get those cork boots off my new shoes. A note on pronunciation: dag is drawn out into two syllables deh-ig, namit is compressed into nearly a single flip.

Non-volatile memory chip. Information will last an estimated 100 years with (battery) power. It is similar in operation to EEPROM in that it can be erased with a higher voltage than it is read or written with, but does not require as much time to write or voltage to reset.

You can only erase the whole Flash RAM at once.

teletype, a combination keyboard, printer and modem. Typically with a paper tape punch and reader to save long-distance costs. Connections were typically made at 300 baud (bits per second) or 6 characters per second, the speed of a fast typist.

TTY access is generally available to government services for the benefit of the hearing impaired.

Male principal in a wedding ceremony.

The scared groom was as stiff as a broom.

Less sacrilegious form of bejesus.

The fake cockroach on the wedding cake scared the bejeebers out of the nervous groom.