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- From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Typewriter
- Message-ID: <8130@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 16:20:07 GMT
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- I read somewhere that the reason the letters of the word `typewriter'
- are all on the top row of the keyboard is so that shop-assistants could
- demonstrate early prototype typewriters easily.
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- Other words you can make with the letters on the first row of the
- typewriter are eerie, equip, equity, ere, err, error, erupt, etiquette,
- ewe, eye, I, ire, it, O, opt, or, ore, otter, our, out, ow, owe, p, pee,
- peep, peepy, peer, pep, peppery, peppy, per, perpetuity, pert, pet,
- petit, petite, petri, petty, pew, pewee, pewter, pi, pie, pier, piety,
- pip, pipe, pipette, pique, pirouette, pit, pity, poet, poetry, poi,
- poop, poor, pop, pope, poppy, pore, port, pot, potpourri, pottery, pour,
- pout, pow, power, prep, pretty, prey, prior, priori, priory, pro, prop,
- proper, property, proprietor, propriety, prototype, prow, pry, pup,
- puppet, puppeteer, puppy, pure, purport, purr, put, putt, putty, pyre,
- pyrite, queer, query, queue, quiet, quip, quirt, quit, quite, quo,
- quote, rep, repertoire, repertory, report, repute, require, retire,
- retiree, retort, riot, rip, ripe, rite, roe, root, rope, rot, rote,
- rotor, rout, route, row, rue, rupee, rupture, rut, rutty, rye, tee,
- teet, teeter, tepee, terrier, territory, terror, terry, tete, ti, tie,
- tier, tip, tippy, tiptoe, tire, tit, to, toe, too, toot, top, tor, tore,
- torpor, torque, torr, tort, torture, tory, tot, tote, tour, tout, tow,
- tower, toy, tree, treetop, trio, trip, tripe, trite, troop, trot,
- troupe, trout, troy, true, try, turret, tutor, tutu, twit, two, type,
- typewrite, typo, up, upper, uproot, utter, we, wee, weep, weir, wept,
- were, wert, wet, wipe, wire, wiry, wit, witty, woe, woo, wop, wore,
- worry, wow, writ, write, writeup, wrote, wry, ye, yet, yip, yore, you,
- your and yow.
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