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Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/%C3%89ta%C3%ADn" title="Étaín">Étaín</a>, a figure of Irish mythology.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1273380762/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti 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style="width:252px;max-width:252px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Etaoin_shrdlu.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Etaoin_shrdlu.png/250px-Etaoin_shrdlu.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Etaoin_shrdlu.png/375px-Etaoin_shrdlu.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Etaoin_shrdlu.png/500px-Etaoin_shrdlu.png 2x" data-file-width="790" data-file-height="449" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><i>Etaoin shrdlu</i> in a 1903 publication of <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> (third line from the bottom)</div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:252px;max-width:252px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Humorous_example_of_etaoin_shrdlu.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Humorous_example_of_etaoin_shrdlu.svg/250px-Humorous_example_of_etaoin_shrdlu.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Humorous_example_of_etaoin_shrdlu.svg/375px-Humorous_example_of_etaoin_shrdlu.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Humorous_example_of_etaoin_shrdlu.svg/500px-Humorous_example_of_etaoin_shrdlu.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="725" data-file-height="454" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption">A humorous and intentional example of <i>etaoin shrdlu</i> in a 1916 publication of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Day_Book" title="The Day Book">The Day Book</a></i></div></div></div></div></div> <p><b>Etaoin shrdlu</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/i/: 'y' in 'happy'">i</span><span title="/ɔɪ/: 'oi' in 'choice'">ɔɪ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></span><span class="wrap"> </span><span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/ʃ/: 'sh' in 'shy'">ʃ</span><span title="/ɜːr/: 'ur' in 'fur'">ɜːr</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/uː/: 'oo' in 'goose'">uː</span></span>/</a></span></span>,<sup id="cite_ref-Dict_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dict-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/eɪ/: 'a' in 'face'">eɪ</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/ɑː/: 'a' in 'father'">ɑː</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></span><span class="wrap"> </span><span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ʃ/: 'sh' in 'shy'">ʃ</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/uː/: 'oo' in 'goose'">uː</span></span>/</a></span></span>)<sup id="cite_ref-Farewell_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Farewell-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a nonsense phrase that sometimes appeared by accident in print in the days of "<a href="/wiki/Hot_metal_typesetting" title="Hot metal typesetting">hot type</a>" publishing, resulting from a custom of <a href="/wiki/Type_casting_(typography)" title="Type casting (typography)">type-casting machine</a> operators filling out and discarding lines of type when an error was made. It appeared often enough to become part of newspaper lore – a documentary about the last issue of <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> composed using hot metal (July 2, 1978) was titled <i>Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The phrase "etaoin shrdlu" is listed in the <i><a href="/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary" title="Oxford English Dictionary">Oxford English Dictionary</a></i> and in the <i><a href="/wiki/Random_House_Webster%27s_Unabridged_Dictionary" title="Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary">Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary</a></i>. </p><p>The letters in the string are, approximately, the 12 most commonly used letters in the English language; differing sources do give slightly different results but one well-known sequence is ETAOINS RHLDCUM, <a href="/wiki/Letter_frequency#Relative_frequencies_of_letters_in_the_English_language" title="Letter frequency">ordered by their frequency</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Etaoin_shrdlu&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The letters on <a href="/wiki/Type_casting_(typography)" title="Type casting (typography)">type-casting machine</a> keyboards (such as <a href="/wiki/Linotype_machine" title="Linotype machine">Linotype</a> and <a href="/wiki/Intertype_Corporation" title="Intertype Corporation">Intertype</a>) were arranged by descending <a href="/wiki/Letter_frequency" title="Letter frequency">letter frequency</a> to speed up the mechanical operation of the machine, so lower-case <code>e-t-a-o-i-n</code> and <code>s-h-r-d-l-u</code> were the first two columns on the left side of the keyboard. </p><p>Each key would cause a brass 'matrix' (an individual letter mold) from the corresponding slot in a font magazine to drop and be added to a line mold. After a line had been cast, the constituent matrices of its mold were returned to the font magazine. </p><p>If a mistake was made, the line could theoretically be corrected by hand in the assembler area. However, manipulating the matrices by hand within the partially assembled line was time-consuming and presented the chance of disturbing important adjustments. It was much quicker to fill out the bad line and discard the resulting line of text than it was to redo it properly. </p><p>To make the line long enough to proceed through the machine, operators would finish it by running a finger down the first columns of the keyboard, which created a pattern that could be easily noticed by proofreaders. Occasionally such a line would be overlooked and make its way into print. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Appearances_outside_typography">Appearances outside typography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Etaoin_shrdlu&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Appearances outside typography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Linotype_keyboard_with_Star_Quadder_attachment.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Linotype_keyboard_with_Star_Quadder_attachment.jpg/220px-Linotype_keyboard_with_Star_Quadder_attachment.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Linotype_keyboard_with_Star_Quadder_attachment.jpg/330px-Linotype_keyboard_with_Star_Quadder_attachment.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Linotype_keyboard_with_Star_Quadder_attachment.jpg/440px-Linotype_keyboard_with_Star_Quadder_attachment.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="625" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Linotype_machine" title="Linotype machine">Linotype machine</a> keyboard. It has the following alphabet arrangement twice, once for lower case (the black keys) and once for upper case (the white keys), with the keys in the middle for numbers and symbols: <b>etaoin / shrdlu / cmfwyp / vbgkqj / xz</b></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Linotype_keyboard,_showing_%22etaoin_shrdlu%22_key_pattern.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Linotype_keyboard%2C_showing_%22etaoin_shrdlu%22_key_pattern.jpg/220px-Linotype_keyboard%2C_showing_%22etaoin_shrdlu%22_key_pattern.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="391" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Linotype_keyboard%2C_showing_%22etaoin_shrdlu%22_key_pattern.jpg/330px-Linotype_keyboard%2C_showing_%22etaoin_shrdlu%22_key_pattern.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Linotype_keyboard%2C_showing_%22etaoin_shrdlu%22_key_pattern.jpg/440px-Linotype_keyboard%2C_showing_%22etaoin_shrdlu%22_key_pattern.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2432" data-file-height="4320" /></a><figcaption>Close-up of keyboard, showing "etaoin / shrdlu" pattern</figcaption></figure> <p>The phrase has gained enough notability to appear outside typography, including: </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Computing">Computing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Etaoin_shrdlu&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Computing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/SHRDLU" title="SHRDLU">SHRDLU</a> was used in 1972 by <a href="/wiki/Terry_Winograd" title="Terry Winograd">Terry Winograd</a> as the name for an early artificial-intelligence system in <a href="/wiki/Lisp_programming_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Lisp programming language">Lisp</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The ETAOIN SHRDLU Chess Program was written by Garth Courtois, Jr. for the Nova 1200 mini-computer, competing in the 6th and 7th ACM North American Computer Chess Championship 1975 and 1976.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"Etienne Shrdlu" was used as the name of a character in <i><a href="/wiki/Mavis_Beacon_Teaches_Typing" title="Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing">Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing</a></i>, touch-typing training software from the late 1980s.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Media">Media</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Etaoin_shrdlu&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Variations of "Etaoin Shrdlu" are used as character names in many works, including <a href="/wiki/Elmer_Rice" title="Elmer Rice">Elmer Rice</a>'s 1923 play <i><a href="/wiki/The_Adding_Machine" title="The Adding Machine">The Adding Machine</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-Weird_Words_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Weird_Words-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon" title="Thomas Pynchon">Thomas Pynchon</a>'s early short story <i>The Secret Integration</i> (1962), <a href="/wiki/Max_Shulman" title="Max Shulman">Max Shulman</a>'s 1944 book <i>Barefoot Boy with Cheek</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Charles_G._Finney" title="Charles G. Finney">Charles G. Finney</a>'s 1935 <i><a href="/wiki/The_Circus_of_Dr._Lao" title="The Circus of Dr. Lao">The Circus of Dr. Lao</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>The Black Hole Travel Agency</i> novels by <a href="/wiki/Jack_McKinney_(writer)" title="Jack McKinney (writer)">Jack McKinney</a>.</li> <li>Variations of "Etaoin Shrdlu" are used in the title of some works, including "Etaoin Shrdlu", a 1942 short story by <a href="/wiki/Fredric_Brown" title="Fredric Brown">Fredric Brown</a> about a sentient Linotype machine (a sequel, "Son of Etaoin Shrdlu", was written by others in 1981);<sup id="cite_ref-Weird_Words_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Weird_Words-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the 1945 whimsical short story "Etaoin and Shrdlu" by <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Armstrong_(writer)" title="Anthony Armstrong (writer)">Anthony Armstrong</a> which ends "And Sir Etaoin and Shrdlu married and lived so happily ever after that whenever you come across Etaoin's name even today it's generally followed by Shrdlu's";<sup id="cite_ref-Weird_Words_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Weird_Words-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a 50-year history of the <a href="/wiki/National_Press_Club_(USA)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Press Club (USA)">National Press Club (USA)</a> published in 1958 titled <i>Shrdlu – An Affectionate Chronicle</i>;<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>The Best of Shrdlu</i>, a collection by Denys Parsons of humorous misprints and double meanings from newspapers that Parsons ascribed to a mischievous character named Gobfrey Shrdlu, referring to collectors of them as Shrdlologists.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Three pieces in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i> magazine were published in 1925 under the <a href="/wiki/Pen_name" title="Pen name">pen name</a> Etain Shrdlu.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At least one piece in <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i> magazine had Etaoin Shrdlu in the title.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_R._Hofstadter" class="mw-redirect" title="Douglas R. Hofstadter">Douglas R. Hofstadter</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach" title="Gödel, Escher, Bach">Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid</a></i> includes a chapter named "SHRDLU, Toy of Man's Designing," which features a character named "Eta Oin" using a computer program "SHRDLU" — a reference to <a href="/wiki/Terry_Winograd" title="Terry Winograd">Terry Winograd</a>'s program and Bach's "<a href="/wiki/Jesu,_Joy_of_Man%27s_Desiring" title="Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring">Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring</a>".</li> <li>Etaoin Shrdlu is the name of a character in at least two <a href="/wiki/Robert_Crumb" title="Robert Crumb">Robert Crumb</a> comic stories, including <i><a href="/wiki/Weirdo_(comics)" title="Weirdo (comics)">Weirdo</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"Eotain" and "Shurdlu", using these spellings, are the names of two characters who make sporadic joint appearances in <a href="/wiki/Phil_Foglio" title="Phil Foglio">Phil Foglio</a>'s webcomic <i><a href="/wiki/Girl_Genius" title="Girl Genius">Girl Genius</a></i>.</li> <li>Etaoin and Shrdlu both appear frequently in the drawings of <a href="/wiki/Emile_Mercier_(cartoonist)" title="Emile Mercier (cartoonist)">Emile Mercier</a> as place names, racehorses' names, and people's names.</li> <li>The French equivalent, Elaoin Sdrétu, appears in <a href="/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Franquin" title="André Franquin">André Franquins</a> <a href="/wiki/Le_Petit_No%C3%ABl" title="Le Petit Noël">"Noël et l’Elaoin"</a> (1978).</li> <li>The rogue-like video game <i>Nethack</i> uses randomized names for unidentified magic scrolls; one of these names is ETAOIN SHRDLU.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"Molten <a href="/wiki/Fairies" class="mw-redirect" title="Fairies">Fairies</a>: Sprites of a Newspaper", featuring Etaoin, Shrdlu, and Cmfwyp, appeared in Perth's "The Daily News" in 1922.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Schmitz" class="mw-redirect" title="James Schmitz">James Schmitz</a> uses the sequence as a swear-word in several of his pieces.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Etaoin_shrdlu&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Music"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Shrdlu (Norman Shrdlu) is listed as the composer of "Jam Blues", cut 1 on the 1951 Norman Granz-produced jazz album released in 1990 as <i>Charlie Parker Jam Session</i>. This appears to be a joke on Granz's part as Norman Shrdlu is credited in several Parker (and other) tunes that are jam sessions rather than compositions.</li> <li>"Etaoin Shrdlu" is the title of the first song on <a href="/wiki/Cul_de_Sac_(band)" title="Cul de Sac (band)">Cul de Sac</a>'s 1999 album <i><a href="/wiki/Crashes_to_Light,_Minutes_to_Its_Fall" title="Crashes to Light, Minutes to Its Fall">Crashes to Light, Minutes to Its Fall</a></i>.</li> <li>"Etaoin"<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and "Shrdlu", written and performed by Dallas Roberts, are original musical pieces created for the soundtrack of the U.S. television series <a href="/wiki/House_of_Cards_(U.S._TV_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Cards (U.S. TV series)"><i>House of Cards</i></a>, Season 2, Episode 10.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Etaoin_shrdlu&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Filler_text" title="Filler text">Filler text</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lorem_ipsum" title="Lorem ipsum">Lorem ipsum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qwerty" class="mw-redirect" title="Qwerty">Qwerty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dvorak_keyboard_layout" title="Dvorak keyboard layout">Dvorak keyboard layout</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azertyuiop_(horse)" title="Azertyuiop (horse)">Azertyuiop (horse)</a>, whose name derives from letters on the top row of French keyboard layout</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span 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.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/etaoin%20shrdlu">"etaoin shrdlu"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Merriam-Webster" title="Merriam-Webster">Merriam-Webster</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" title="Encyclopædia Britannica">Encyclopædia Britannica</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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