RE: Need a collective noun

[Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

ETAOIN SHRDLU was the order of alpha keys on a Linotype typesetting keyboard. That letter sequence actually appeared twice, once for lower-case and once for caps. The order is approximately the order of use frequency in English text. The odd keyboard is the reason why "Linotype operator" was a different (and usually higher paid) job description from "typist".
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETAOIN_SHRDLU for a photo of a Linotype keyboard.

-FR

> From: Brian -dot- Henderson -at- mitchell1 -dot- com
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Need a collective noun
> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:35:49 +0000
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> If I was 10 years older I'd probably know that one. What is it, a hot metal typesetting "keyboard"?
> (is there even such a thing?)
> 
> -BH
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> -----Original Message----- From: Peter Neilson
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> A shrdlu of really old newspaper guys.
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