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	Etaoin Shrdlu
		This resulted in the word "etaoin." He then would use his left thumb to bring down another space, and return with his right index finger straight down the second row of keys.
		That resulted in the word "shrdlu." When this routine was repeated sufficiently to fill out the short line, he would "elevate" it over to where the action was, in front of the melting pot.
		And this of course resulted in a lot of "etaoin shrdlu etaoin shrdlu etao" lines showing up in newspapers all over the world ~ confounding the reading public ~ and bringing about the general recognition of "etaoin shrdlu" as an artifact of typesetting in almost every language that was printed from left to right.
	pages.prodigy.net /jabeckpearce/poor_town/tales/etaoinshrdlu.htm (1607 words)

	Fun With Words: Letter Frequencies
		Etaoin Shrdlu is a somewhat infamous phrase among language enthusiasts.
		For example, the letter 'h' is not found in a comparatively large number of English words, but as it appears in several of the most commonly used words, such as "the," "then," "there," and "that," it appears more often in every day speech and writing than it does in a list of dictionary words.
		The "etaoin shrdlu" sequence given above is based on the frequency of letters as they appear in speech and writing.
	rinkworks.com /words/letterfreq.shtml (318 words)

	Etaoin Shrdlu
		Shrdlu is the mistake with a name, the eponym of the mistake in the machine.
		Etaoin Shrdlu also appears to have been the pseudonym of a columnist for the Weekly Reader, a small paper directed at grade school children, and popular in the fifties and sixties.
		Etaoin shrdlu was a profanity substitute used in the novel, which was written about '63 or '64 when people still used substitutes.
	www.webservertalk.com /message240399.html (1815 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/ETAOIN SHRDLU
		ETAOIN SHRDLU (often pronounced "et-ee-oin shurd-loo") is the approximate order of frequency of the twelve most commonly used letters in the English language, best known as a nonsense phrase that sometimes appeared in print in the days of "hot type" publishing due to a custom of Linotype machine operators.
		Etaoins is used in James Thurber's 1931 Owl in the Attic to indicate the incompetence of a Linotyper.
		Etaoin Shrdlu is a character in Charles G. Finney's fantasy classic, "The Circus of Dr. Lao" (1935).
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/ETAOIN_SHRDLU (956 words)

	ETAOIN SHRDLU - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		ETAOIN SHRDLU (pronounced "etwan sherdloo") is the approximate order of frequency of the twelve most commonly used letters in the English language, best known as a nonsense phrase that sometimes appeared in print in the days of "hot type" publishing due to a custom of Linotype machine operators.
		Etaoins is used in James Thurber's 1931 Owl in the Attic to indicate the incompetence of a Linotyper.
		SHRDLU was used in 1972 by Terry Winograd as the name for an early artificial-intelligence system in Lisp.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ETAOIN_SHRDLU (920 words)

	SHRDLU - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		SHRDLU was an early natural language understanding computer program, developed by Terry Winograd at MIT from 1968-1970.
		The name SHRDLU was derived from ETAOIN SHRDLU, the arrangement of the alpha keys on a Linotype machine, arranged in descending order of usage frequency in English.
		One could ask SHRDLU to "put the green cone on the red block" and then "take the cone off"; "the cone" would be taken to mean the cone one had just talked about.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SHRDLU (658 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Etaoin Shrdlu
		And there is a science fiction story by Fredric Brown called Etaoin Shrdlu, in which an artificially intelligent Linotype machine is able to understand all the text it sets.
		The complete phrase 'etaoin shrdlu', or each half of it, has come to refer to text that is nonsense or absurd.
		Parsons described the character Gobfrey Shrdlu as the 'malicious spirit with an irrepressible sense of humour who lurks at the elbow of tired journalists and printers with disastrous consequences' - a sort of latter-day Titivillus.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A1051552 (725 words)

	Textism: Nuts and Mutton
		Etaoin Shrdlu is a recurring bit of gibberish from the early–mid 20th century: it’s the beginning of a list, in order, of the most frequently used letters in English.
		Unlike the Qwerty keyboard you’re sitting in front of, Etaoin Shrdlu comprised the first two rows of the keyboard of the Linotype typesetting machine.
		The –30– seen at the bottom of press releases and announcements is left over from the time when compositors would indicate the end of an article with a blank 30-point slug on the Linotype machine.
	www.textism.com /article/180 (343 words)

	Etaoin Shrdlu Explained (Site not responding. Last check: )
		If all you're looking for is an explanation of what the heck a "shrdlu" is, or why you should care, the old page is still here.
		I added the Etaoin as a sort of honorific (and because I thought it would be funny, and funny is always good).
		Etaoin Shrdlu used to be me I no longer have the private PGP key that goes with this, please don't use it
	www.deaddrop.com /shrdlu.html (550 words)

	etaoin shrdlu@Everything2.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		You could sometimes see the phrase ETAOIN SHRDLU - left in by mistake - in newspaper articles; it was meant as some sort of mark or signal to someone in the composing or typesetting process.
		In that sense, etaoin shrdlu was the predecessor to hello world.
		Linotype operators who made a typing error would often run their fingers down the two middle columns of the keyboard to cast "etaoin shrdlu" on the next line.
	everything2.com /?node_id=176763 (535 words)

	etaoinshrdlu.newsvine.com - Etaoin Shrdlu
		Etaoin Shrdlu has not filled out a bio yet.
		Etaoin Shrdlu has not added any friends yet.
		Etaoin Shrdlu has not written any articles or seeded any links yet.
	etaoinshrdlu.newsvine.com (303 words)

	David Weiss; filmed hot type's last days \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		"Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu" caught the din of the composing room, where dozens of Linotype machines clattered away, spitting out lines of type – formed backward of the printed impression – that were locked into metal page forms.
		With the advent of computerized typesetting, "etaoin shrdlu" disappeared from the paper forever.
		David Loeb Weiss was born in Warsaw, Poland, in either 1911 or 1912, and came to the United States with his family as a child.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050830/news_1m30weiss.html (382 words)

	ChessBase.com - Chess News - Freestyle Chess —Teaching an Engine how to Fly
		It was this penultimate round in which after a tough battle throughout the tournament most of the decisions were taken.
		“Etaoin Shrdlu” had to share the 3rd place with “Rodo”, an Italian team, who was the lucky winner against “Hercules01” in that memorable round eight, when another mouseslip in a freestyle tournament decided over life and death.
		Another report comes from Patrik Schoupal, introducing the reader to the Czech team “Etaoin Shrdlu”, who shared the third money prize ($2,000) with the tied Italian team “Rodo”.
	www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=3821 (4966 words)

	The Straight Dope: What's the origin of the mysterious phrase "etaoin shrdlu"?
		I need to know the origin of the phrase "etaoin shrdlu." I first encountered it in Walt Kelly's "Pogo" comic strip, where it was the moniker of an irascible bookworm, and it has turned up periodically since.
		He suggests that "etaoin shrdlu" is what they used to test Linotype typesetting machines with.
		Back when newspapers used to be set in "hot" (i.e., cast metal) type, "etaoin shrdlu" would occasionally wind up in print because a careless Linotype operator neglected to throw his test lines away.
	www.straightdope.com /classics/a2_262a.html (281 words)

	Penn State Libraries: Colloquia: Lectures (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu" details the night of Sunday, July 2, 1978, when the final issue of the New York Times is set in "hot type." The following day, compositors sat down at computer terminals to produce the new "cold type." The Times' set the precedent for other large papers to automate.
		So the first two columns of keys contained the letters "ETAOIN" and "SHRDLU." The Linotype had no "delete" key so in the case of a typographical error, the operators would drag their fingers down the first two columns to finish out the line before starting over to correct the error.
		Since the screening of "Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu" for the University Libraries Colloquia, the death of director David Loeb Weiss has brought new attention to the film.
	www.libraries.psu.edu /admin/colloquia/foreman.htm (534 words)

	Etaoin Shrdlu Productions - Creativity at the End of the Page (Site not responding. Last check: )
		During the days of manual typeset, the letters were displayed in decreasing order of usage, with the first two lines reading ETAOIN SHRDLU.
		Ever so often, an editor would miss the faux paus, and ETAOIN SHRDLU would remain in the day's paper.
		While I've never known the use in common vernacular, there is a site dedicated to this phrase's preservation.
	www.etaoinshrdlu.net /index.html (199 words)

	AI Newsletter
		Every AI textbook carries a reproduction of Shrdlu's sparse virtual world, a schematic robot gripper poised above a collection of wire-frame pyramids and cubes standing on a tabletop.
		Shrdlu became famous as the example of pronoun disambiguation and procedural semantics.
		Now the Semaphore Corporation have put together a collection of links to Shrdlu's creators and their reminiscences and source code.
	www.ainewsletter.com /newsletters/aix_0503.htm (8446 words)

	Etaoin Shrdlu \| TIME
		Newspaper readers occasionally encounter in the day's news the following cryptogram: "etaoin shrdlu etaoin shrdlu etaoin shrdlu." It is obviously some sort of typographical error, but what must have puzzled many an alert layman is the regularity of the error's spelling.
		Last week, noticing that the Literary Digest had reprinted an "etaoin shrdlu" line, apparently as a joke but without bothering to explain the mystery to its readers, the ever-practical New York World explained editorially for laymen what every newsman knows.
		The result is the emergence of a line containing "etaoin shrdlu." And when the operator forgets to pluck the faulty line from the mould, "etaoin shrdlu" gets into print.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,881281,00.html (412 words)

	Etaoin Shrdlu at Excursus
		A comment on a post on Metahacker correctly claimed that the origin “-30-” was more “on the news gathering side and not in the type shop”, but wrongly suggests that “SHRDLU” was used by linotype operators to mark the end of the line.
		Concerning this there is no mystery, though with the passing of the linotype machine “ETAOIN SHRDLU” is less and less familiar.
		Unlike QWERTY keyboards, the linotype machine’s keyboard was based on the approximate order of frequency of the letters used in the English language.
	markelikalderon.com /blog/2007/08/07/etaoin-shrdlu (459 words)

	Holmfirth Typographical Society
		Etaoin was a Bangladeshi typesetter known for his speed and accuracy, it is said he could set lines in hot-metal faster than any man. Here he is as a young boy in his grandfather’s printing works in Dhaka:
		Etaoin Shrdlu, or rather, as it was wont to appear, either ETAOIN SHRDLU or etaoin shrdlu.
		etaoin shrdlu would be cast along with the mistake.
	holmfirthtypo.blogspot.com (1808 words)

	Penn State Libraries : News
		University Park, PA -- The film Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu will be shown October 8, 2003, 2:00–3:15 p.m., in the Foster Auditorium, 101 Pattee Library.
		With the idea of speeding up the setting of type, the old Linotype keyboards had their letters arranged in decreasing order of the frequency with which they appear in the language, making the first two rows ETAOIN SHRDLU.
		In the daily race to prepare the newspaper for the press, the letters would end up as space holders and were often accidentally printed.
	www.libraries.psu.edu /news/releases/summerfall2003/FarewellEtaoinShrdlu_903.html (245 words)

	AETHER: In Memoriam Hugh Kenner
		The first chapter of The Mechanic Muse is called "In Memorian Etaoin Shrdlu." These are the letters used by old-style typesetters to fill out a line of botched type.
		A precise and fascinating physical description of the motion typesetters used to get Etaoin Shrdlu into a line is given by James David Pearce.
		And how E.S. circulated in the computer science, AI community is explained by Kwang Poon on his blog.
	www.aether.com /archives/000022.html (776 words)

	swirsh.com > : shrdlu (Site not responding. Last check: )
		SHRDLU was an early natural language understanding computer program, developed by Terry Winograd at MIT in 1968-70.
		Later additions were made at the computer graphics labs at the University of Utah, adding a full 3D rendering of SHRDLU's "world".
		The name SHRDLU was derived from ETAOIN SHRDLU, the arrangement of the alpha keys on a Linotype machine.
	www.swirsh.com /articles/science/shrdlu.asp (114 words)

	j g bell - etaoin shrdlu
		Etaoin Shrdlu is my name for the work I have done on an open source library automation system.
		I've imagined that if the code were even re-written as client-server that the client would by Etaoin and the server code would be called Shrdlu.
		If you're curious about the word origin, look at Etaoin Shrdlu.
	www.arlecchino.org /jgbell/etaoinshrdlu (406 words)

	It points towards Mecca (Flight 93 memorial)
		Etaoin's image shows that a line perpendicular to the endpoints of the crescent (that is, the direction the crescent faces) appears to pass very close to Mecca.
		"Etaoin Shrdlu" is a pseudonym for someone in the media business, most probably the newspaper side.
		The origins are too involved to go into fully here, but it dates back to the days of the Linotype machine and a special signal, produced by the typesetters rolling their fingers over the non-QWERTY keyboard to signal the need to correct an error in the typesetting.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1482656/posts (2918 words)

	[No title]
		The new literature, which is referred to as the 'Snakk'virus by Dr Etaoin Shrdlu and 'Snakk enda mer' virus by Syk mann lekk, encrypts and corrupts 'flush' and 'bm' files on personal homepages.
		AoANet contacted Etaoin Shrdlu's Morrokaker and Syk mann lekk, two of the leading anti-literature and nuditilities providers, for assistance in detecting and repairing the literature.
		"Our colleagues at Syk mann lekk and Dr Etaoin Shrdlu were exemplary for the speed in which they were able to identify and rectify this previously undiscovered literature," said Akton Plutus, executive editor in charge of the AoANet Software Library.
	museumsnett.no /alias/HJEMMESIDE/bjornmag/ktonlutus/updateVersions.html (1000 words)

	MySpace.com - ETAOIN SHRDLU - Toronto, CA - Classical / Hardcore - www.myspace.com/etaoinshrdlu
		ETAOIN SHRDLU is the approximate order of frequency of the twelve most common letters in the English language.
		The ordering originated in the era of "hot type" publishing as a nonsensical phrase used by Linotype operators to indicate that an error had occurred.
		Since its layout was vertically aligned by frequency, the phrase ETAOIN SHRDLU formed the two left-most columns of the Linotype keyboard.
	www.myspace.com /etaoinshrdlu (560 words)

	David Loeb Weiss -- directed 'Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu'
		David Loeb Weiss, a retired proofreader at the New York Times who directed the award-winning 1980 documentary film "Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu," which chronicled the last, clangorous night that the paper was put out using hot-metal type, died Thursday at his home in San Diego.
		"Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu" caught the din of the composing room, where dozens of Linotype machines clattered away, spitting out lines of type -- formed backward of the printed impression -- that were locked into metal page forms.
		David Loeb Weiss was born in Warsaw in either 1911 or 1912, and came to the United States with his family as a child.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/17/BAGKTE90801.DTL (538 words)

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