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Until recently, the prevailing view assumed\u00a0lorem ipsum<\/em>\u00a0was born as a nonsense text. \u201cIt’s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,\u201d\u00a0Before & After<\/em>\u00a0magazine\u00a0answered a curious reader, \u201cIts \u2018words\u2019 loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English, which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Cicero would put it, \u201cUm, not so fast.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The placeholder text, beginning with the line \u201cLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit\u201d<\/em>, looks like Latin because in its youth, centuries ago, it was Latin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar from Hampden-Sydney College, is\u00a0credited\u00a0with discovering the source behind the ubiquitous filler text. In seeing a sample of\u00a0lorem ipsum<\/em>, his interest was piqued by\u00a0consectetur<\/em>\u2014a genuine, albeit rare, Latin word. Consulting a Latin dictionary led McClintock to a passage from\u00a0De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cOn the Extremes of Good and Evil\u201d), a first-century B.C. text from the Roman philosopher Cicero. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how did the classical Latin become so incoherent? According to McClintock, a 15th century typesetter likely scrambled part of Cicero’s De Finibus<\/em> in order to provide placeholder text to mockup various fonts for a type specimen book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s difficult to find examples of lorem ipsum<\/em> in use before Letraset made it popular as a dummy text in the 1960s, although McClintock says he remembers coming across the lorem ipsum<\/em> passage in a book of old metal type samples. So far he hasn’t relocated where he once saw the passage, but the popularity of Cicero in the 15th century supports the theory that the filler text has been used for centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And anyways, as\u00a0Cecil Adams reasoned, \u201c[Do you really] think graphic arts supply houses were hiring classics scholars in the 1960s?\u201d Perhaps. But it seems reasonable to imagine that there was a version in use far before the age of Letraset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Until recently, the prevailing view assumed lorem ipsum<\/em> was born as a nonsense text. \u201cIt\u2019s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,\u201d Before & After<\/em> magazine answered a curious reader, \u201cIts \u2018words\u2019 loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English, which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Cicero would put it, \u201cUm, not so fast.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The placeholder text, beginning with the line \u201cLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit\u201d<\/em>, looks like Latin because in its youth, centuries ago, it was Latin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar from Hampden-Sydney College, is credited with discovering the source behind the ubiquitous filler text. In seeing a sample of lorem ipsum<\/em>, his interest was piqued by consectetur<\/em>\u2014a genuine, albeit rare, Latin word. Consulting a Latin dictionary led McClintock to a passage from De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum<\/em> (\u201cOn the Extremes of Good and Evil\u201d), a first-century B.C. text from the Roman philosopher Cicero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how did the classical Latin become so incoherent? According to McClintock, a 15th century typesetter likely scrambled part of Cicero\u2019s De Finibus<\/em> in order to provide placeholder text to mockup various fonts for a type specimen book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s difficult to find examples of lorem ipsum<\/em> in use before Letraset made it popular as a dummy text in the 1960s, although McClintock says he remembers coming across the lorem ipsum<\/em> passage in a book of old metal type samples. So far he hasn\u2019t relocated where he once saw the passage, but the popularity of Cicero in the 15th century supports the theory that the filler text has been used for centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And anyways, as Cecil Adams reasoned, \u201c[Do you really] think graphic arts supply houses were hiring classics scholars in the 1960s?\u201d Perhaps. But it seems reasonable to imagine that there was a version in use far before the age of Letraset.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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