NOT a Corinaism
So, there we were – working hard in the office, and all of a sudden, Corina starts laughing.
I politely waited for her to stop then enquired what was up?
Well, her daughter has a Samsung Pixon phone and has lost the little stylus you write on the screen with, so Corina was looking on the Samsung site to see what a replacement would cost…
You just can’t make this stuff up…
I thought it was called a stylis, of course in Corina’s case it may just ask her if she means a stylist.
stylus noun (styluses or styli) 1 a a hard pointed device, usually made from diamond or sapphire, at the tip of the needle-like part of the cartridge at the end of the arm of a record-player, which picks up the sound from the record’s grooves; b a similar device for recording information given out by electrocardiographs, seismographs, etc; c the cutting tool that is used to produce the grooves in a record. 2 (also style) a a pointed implement for engraving, drawing, writing, etc; b a type of ancient writing implement that has one pointed end for inscribing characters in wax tablets and a flat blunted end for making corrections and erasures.
ETYMOLOGY: 17c: from Latin stilus, which was incorrectly altered to stylus, a stake or pointed writing implement.
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your posting times are way off.
My posting times are just that – MY time.
It’s not my fault y’all have weird time zones…