Friday Phrase: Etaoin shrdlu

[calzephyr]

Etaoin shrdlu

Something of a cousin to lorem ipsum, etaoin_shrdlu is a nonsense phrase appearing in old newspapers and printed material. Generated by the two left-most columns of keys on a linotype machine keyboard.

Here's a 9 minute video explaining etaoin_shrdlu and the printing process in detail and a Wikipedia page that can summarize it better than I!

Watch on YouTube

Comments

[med_cat]

Cool; I knew about "lorem ipsum", but not this so much

[calzephyr]

Yeah, it was totally new to me too! I love the genius creation--simply using the order of letters on one side of the keyboard :-D

[med_cat]

:))