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Etymologies

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Top row of letters on a QWERTY keyboard.

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Examples

  • Never a day passes when he does not stare at those three hateful words: qwertyuiop, asdfghjkl and zxcvbnm.

    Philip Roth: Still fascinated by himself | Observer profile 2011

  • But everything is Just Fine now and etaoin shrdlu etaoin shrdlu etaoin shrdlu qwertyuiop

    RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2008

  • Yanukovych: Ukraine must spend 3.8 billion on Euro 2012 this year photo: Creative Commons/qwertyuiop

    WN.com - Articles related to Gazprom, Ukrainian authorities discuss gas price 2010

  • Yanukovych: Ukraine must spend 3.8 billion on Euro 2012 this year photo: Creative Commons/qwertyuiop

    WN.com - Articles related to Gazprom, Ukrainian authorities discuss gas price 2010

  • Not the least being: if the self is an illusion, an accidental by-product of our capability to form words, then what in god's holy name was I doing on my way to have a poke around on small squares of qwertyuiop plastic at a workstation 22 floors in the sky?

    Mirror.co.uk - News 2009

  • Not the least being: if the self is an illusion, an accidental by-product of our capability to form words, then what in god's holy name was I doing on my way to have a poke around on small squares of qwertyuiop plastic at a workstation 22 floors in the sky?

    Mirror.co.uk - News 2009

  • With most dead writers such intercourse would be an impossibility, but the intensity of Sebald's authorial voice, and the conviction expressed in his work again and again that the barrier between the living and the dead is semi-permeable, might have led a writer more credulous than I to tap upon Ouija keys rather than qwertyuiop ones.

    Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • With most dead writers such intercourse would be an impossibility, but the intensity of Sebald's authorial voice, and the conviction expressed in his work again and again that the barrier between the living and the dead is semi-permeable, might have led a writer more credulous than I to tap upon Ouija keys rather than qwertyuiop ones.

    Culture | guardian.co.uk 2009

  • Back then I had no equal, typed so fast my flashing fingers made smoke rise from qwertyuiop.

    columbiatribune.com stories 2009

  • With most dead writers such intercourse would be an impossibility, but the intensity of Sebald's authorial voice, and the conviction expressed in his work again and again that the barrier between the living and the dead is semi-permeable, might have led a writer more credulous than I to tap upon Ouija keys rather than qwertyuiop ones.

    The Guardian World News 2009

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