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I've never heard of "screamer" in English for someone who tells the news?

• rbanffy 1y ago
  This was before amplifiers were invented, so the announcer had to be very loud.
  • Sniffnoy 1y ago
    I'm aware of that, but the term I'm familiar with is "crier". I've never heard "screamer" used in that sense. Wiktionary doesn't list such a usage; contrast with "crier" for which it is listed. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/screamer https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/screamer https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crier https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/crier
    • johnisgood 1y ago
      I do not intend to offend you as it is not really about you, just that people generally resort to dictionaries like no tomorrow, but read this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44845717 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44845717.
      • Sniffnoy 1y ago
        To be clear, I'm trying to appeal here to actual usage, not to the dictionary per se. The dictionary is just evidence of such, since trying to directly present evidence of actual usage is not so easy without some good tools.