copier:
(plural: ‘copiers‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is with a ‘k’ sound, and letter ‘o’ rhymes with the letter ‘o’ in “pot”)
a person who makes something to be exactly the same as another;
a copyist — a person who writes/makes copies of any written text/documents;
a scribe,
a medieval copier making copies of a book by hand
Most of us think of the mechanical copier, a copying machine, when anybody talks of a copier because we are not used to making copies of any written text by hand!
Before the advent of printing press, copies of books, small or large books, mostly religious sermons, were made by copiers, people who copied books as a job, wrote each book by hand.
During the days of hand-copying of the texts, not all copies of the same book had exactly the same text content because, according to scholars and researchers, of one generation after another of copiers, some copiers may have missed a word, a phrase or a sentence, or may have corrected a word or placed a new word in place of an old one which might have changed its usage over the years.
a copier (the woman) using a carbon copier (the machine) to make carbon copies of some written text in 1806
A ‘copywriter’ or ‘commercial writer’, on the other hand, is a person who writes captions and short descriptions for commercial products that are advertised.
To know what a copywriter is, please click here, for an interesting article on the difference between a copywriter and a copyrighter, please click here.
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