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Category Archives: KNOWLEDGE

knowledge: qwerty

30-Sep-09

Did you know that the “QWERTY” keyboard standard was designed to: use the left hand way more than the right, favoring left-handers slow down typing by assigning important letters to pinkies and ring fingers, because typewriters jammed so much in the 19th century allow the word “typewriter” to be spelled by using only the top [...]

vocab: contretemps

21-Sep-09

Most of us probably wouldn’t expect to learn any new vocabulary from an NFL coach. Not that NFL coaches aren’t smart; they’re often very smart, but the vocabulary of the sport is limited and no one seems to care so much about it. I can’t say whether English soccer managers are a wiser breed of [...]