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    The text discusses the origins of the QWERTY keyboard layout. It describes how the first typewriter was developed in the 1860s by Christopher Sholes and others. They initially organized the keys in alphabetical order but found that common letters would get stuck together when typing quickly. Sholes then redesigned the keyboard layout by spreading the most frequently used English letters farther apart, resulting in the QWERTY layout still used today.

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    The text discusses the origins of the QWERTY keyboard layout. It describes how the first typewriter was developed in the 1860s by Christopher Sholes and others. They initially organized the keys in alphabetical order but found that common letters would get stuck together when typing quickly. Sholes then redesigned the keyboard layout by spreading the most frequently used English letters farther apart, resulting in the QWERTY layout still used today.

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    The text discusses the origins of the QWERTY keyboard layout. It describes how the first typewriter was developed in the 1860s by Christopher Sholes and others. They initially organized the keys in alphabetical order but found that common letters would get stuck together when typing quickly. Sholes then redesigned the keyboard layout by spreading the most frequently used English letters farther apart, resulting in the QWERTY layout still used today.

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    Linking Practice

    Read the following text. Then mark the linking you find in
    it. Don’t forget to apply the rules studied before. And
    don’t link over punctuation marks.

    What is QWERT?
    The first modern typewriter was developed by Christopher
    Sholes and two of his friends, Carlos Glidden and Samule
    Soulé. They worked on a newspaper in Milwaukee,
    Wisconsin in the 1860s.

    Sholes put each letter on the end of a metal bar. A key


    was pushed down and the end of the bar hit the paper.
    The typewriter keys were put in alphabetical order, but
    the alphabetical order caused a problem. Fast typing
    made some of the letter bars get caught on one another.
    The bars were too close together.

    Sholes solved the problem. He found out the most-used


    letters in English. Then he put these letters far apart on
    the typewriter keyboard. The letter bars did not hit each
    other easily. The first six letters on the tops of the
    keyboard are QWERTY.

    Taken and adapted for educational purposes from Curry, Dean (1987), Right Reading. Washington DC: USIA
    page 53

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