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单词 ETAOINSHRDLU
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ETAOINSHRDLU

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Etaoin shrdlu

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Top: Etaoin shrdlu appearing in a 1903 publication of The New York Times (third line from the bottom). Bottom: A humorous and intentional example of etaoin shrdlu in a 1916 newspaper.
A Linotype machine 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: etaoin / shrdlu / cmfwyp / vbgkqj / xz

Etaoin shrdlu (/ˈɛtiˌɔɪnˈʃɜːrdl/) is a nonsense phrase that sometimes appeared in print in the days of "hot type" publishing because of a custom of type-casting machine operators. It appeared often enough to become part of newspaper lore.

It is the approximate order of frequency of the 12 most commonly used letters in the English language.

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