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Etaoin shrdlu (/ˈɛtiɔɪn ˈʃɜːrdluː/, /ˈeɪtɑːn ʃrədˈluː/) is a
nonsense phrase that
sometimes appeared by
accident in
print in the days of "hot type" publishing...
- only once, such as "Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx".
Filler text
Etaoin shrdlu –
Common metal-type
printing error Lorem ipsum –
Placeholder text...
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avoid worse pains.
Asemic writing –
Wordless open
semantic form of
writing Etaoin shrdlu –
Common metal-type
printing error Gibberish –
Nonsensical language...
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English language ****umed the
letter order, from most to
least common, to be
etaoin shrdlu cmfwyp vbgkqj xz
based on the
experience and
custom of
manual compositors...
- tool for
keyboard classes,
since all four keys are
located on Home row. "
Etaoin shrdlu" is the
approximate order of
frequency of the
twelve most commonly...
- Word Ways. 22 (3).
Retrieved 11
September 2016. "English
Letter Frequency Counts:
Mayzner Revisited or
ETAOIN SRHLDCU". norvig.com.
Retrieved 2019-10-28....
- and SS, EE, TT, and FF are the most
common repeats. The
nonsense phrase "
ETAOIN SHRDLU"
represents the 12 most
frequent letters in
typical English language...
- Press.
Accessed April 19, 2023. https://ia903106.us.archive.org/22/items/
etaoin/Kitabati.pdf. The
abstract of this
journal article is
written in Indonesian...
- down
these two columns, thus
filling out the line with the
nonsense words etaoin shrdlu, in what is
known as a "run down". It is
often quicker to cast a...
- full 3D
rendering of SHRDLU's "world". The name
SHRDLU was
derived from
ETAOIN SHRDLU, the
arrangement of the
letter keys on a
Linotype machine, arranged...
