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“QWERTY”

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This little anacrostic sketch satirises the famous controversy over the origins of the "QWERTY" keyboard layout and the supposed superior system invented by Dvorak. (Incidentally, Dvorak is a distant realtion of the Czech composer, Antonín Dvořák!)

If you're not up on the history of the typewriter keyboard layout, check out this article on the Dvorak system.

The anacrostic should be read as two columns: first, the column starting "Qwerty Wondrously...", all the way to the bottom, and then back to the top for the second column. Note that the order of the letters in both columns follows the order in which the keys are laid out in each respective system.

QWERTY

Wordplay by Matheson Bayley, 2005

Qwerty	Putatively
Wondrously	Yet
Expedited	Falsely
Rapid	Greater—
Typing,	Controversially
Yielding	Rejected
Universal	Later
Improvements	As
On	Only
Proficiency	Equivalent,
And	Upon
Speed.	Infamous
Discordant	Dvorak’s
Fallacious	Humiliation
Gossip,	Through
However,	Navy
Judged—	Studies,
Knowing	Quickly
Literally	Jumped,
Zero!—	Knowingly
eXtant	eXposing
Claims	Biased
Void,	Measurements!
But	What
New	Vicissitudes!
Methods—	Zzzz…

Matheson Bayley © 2005
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