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QWERTY
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QWER·TY  (kwûrt)
adj.
Of, relating to, or designating the traditional configuration of typewriter or computer keyboard keys.

[From the first six letters at the upper left.]

qwerty, QWERTY keyboard [ˈkwɜːtɪ]
n
(Communication Arts / Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) the standard English language typewriter keyboard layout with the characters q, w, e, r, t, and y positioned on the top row of alphabetic characters at the left side of the keyboard


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Never a day passes when he does not stare at those three hateful words: qwertyuiop, asdfghjkl, and zxcvbnm.
Last month Azertyuoip, who gets his name from the top line of a French typewriter - in Britain he would be called Qwertyuiop - completed his Cheltenham build-up with a 25-length cakewalk at Wincanton.
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