Comments: QWERTYUIOP

Out of curiousity, what does she cite in support of this? I've read this is a myth, but the person claiming that doesn't provide any citation for why.

Posted by Beth at July 9, 2003 05:08 PM

Nope, there's no citation; and in fact, it's presented as a parenthetical, and qualified by "reportedly"--so it seems Gitelman had some sense of its possible apocryphal nature.

Posted by MGK at July 9, 2003 10:36 PM

FWIW, on the book table here at the SHARP conference is a copy of _Quirky QWERTY: The Story of the Keyboard at Your Fingertips_ by Torbjorn Lundmark (New South Wales Univ Pr Ltd, 2002).
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0868404365/mockerybird/ref%3Dnosim/102-0021835-3213722

Posted by George at July 10, 2003 04:44 PM

An anagram isn't an acrostic, is it?

Posted by Anton Sherwood at July 25, 2003 05:14 PM

do you know what qwertyuiop really means? here's a hint
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"oh baby"


k. just wanted to let you know.

peace

Posted by uncan at July 26, 2003 10:28 PM

Do you know a word using all the letters?

Posted by Raphael Mills at October 2, 2003 10:49 PM