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Examples
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This was an excellent showing and g vaet ehthmbe f; egCnda etaoin shrdlu dlu gave them the benefit of a doubt afterward.
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But everything is Just Fine now and etaoin shrdlu etaoin shrdlu etaoin shrdlu qwertyuiop…
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So, it is almost time for me to reveal the not-so great mystery of why my site has been named "shrdlu winograd maclisp teletype" for a little while.
shrdlu - Anil Dash 2002
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And the newscaster looks into the camera and says, "Etaoin shrdlu qwertyuiop."
whoar.co.nz 2008
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And the newscaster looks into the camera and says, "Etaoin shrdlu qwertyuiop."
whoar.co.nz 2008
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And the newscaster looks into the camera and says, "Etaoin shrdlu qwertyuiop."
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“etaoin shrdlu” is a combination of two sequences of letters on a hot-lead linotype machine, as every schoolboy who has ever taken a course in typesetting before the advent of computers surely knows.
asativum commented on the word shrdlu
A mrvlous word if never there was one.
And yet -- I actually feel like I've seen it before.
May 12, 2008
sarra commented on the word shrdlu
cf. etaoin shrdlu
May 12, 2008
asativum commented on the word shrdlu
Precisely! Thanks much sarra.
May 19, 2008
bilby commented on the word shrdlu
Infct a grt wrd.
May 19, 2008