α. 1900s– QWERTYUIOP, 1900s– Qwertyuiop, 1900s– qwertyuiop.
β. 1900s– QWERT YUIOP, 1900s– QWERTY UIOP, 1900s– Qwerty Uiop, 1900s– Qwert yuiop, 1900s– Qwerty uiop, 1900s– qwert yuiop, 1900s– qwerty uiop.
qwertyuiopn.adj.
/ˌkwəːtɪˈjuːɪˌɒp/, U.S. /ˌkwərdiˈjuiˌɑp/ A. n.
The sequence of letters on the top row of letter keys on a standard English-language keyboard. Cf. QWERTY n.
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society > communication > printing > typing > typewriter > [noun] > set of keys > series
qwertyuiop1910
QWERTY1930
shrdlu1943
1910 Hampton's Mag. 25 391/1 Noise made by stenographer—‘qwertyuiop;lkjhgfdsazxc’.
1912 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 1 Mar. 2/1 (advt.) qwertyuiop asdfghjklzxcvbnm The right combinations of the lines above will produce a booklet, a follow-up letter [etc.].
1934 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 9 Mar. 4/7 Secretary Ickes' name suggests being squeamish. So does the second row of letters on the typewriter—qwertyuiop.
1956 Public Admin. Rev. 16 32 Pyfgrcl vs. Qwertyuiop.
1962 Which? Dec. 356/2 The keyboards of all the machines were laid out in the traditional—and irrational—pattern, sometimes called ‘qwert yuiop’.
1998 Northern Echo (Nexis) 10 June ‘Typewriter’ was the longest word that could be formed from qwertyuiop, the top letter deck on the keyboard.
B. adj.
= QWERTY adj.
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1976 News (Frederick, Maryland) 28 Jan. a4/2 Each new generation of typists is dragged into the idiotic 100-year-old qwertyuiop typewriter keyboard.
1997 T. Lawson Econ. & Reality xviii. 249 It is to be anticipated that if the qwertyuiop arrangement has emerged and persists, this must be because it facilitates maximum typing speeds.
2005 Evening Standard (Palmerston, N.Z.) (Nexis) 4 Aug. 2 We'll be stuck with the qwertyuiop keyboard for ever.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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