7 March 2010

Q.Longest word that can be made from the right hand side of the letters of a typewriter

A.Using only the letters that naturally fall under the right hand on a typewriter, the longest possible words are Johnny-Jump-Up (flower) & monimolimnion.

March 2010

Related questions

Q.Why is the keyboard set out in qwerty?

A.The QWERTY layout was designed for typewriters, which often jammed. It separated frequently paired letters, causing a typist to alternate between hands.

Q.Dear aqa you are usually good but you are wrong about old typewriters the carriage return is on the left see photos on the Internet

A.On old typewriters, the carriage moved from left to right as you typed. Typists used their right hand to push carriage return.

Q.What is the longest word which can be spelt out on the top row of a typewriter keyboard?

A.Perpetuity & typewriter are the longest common words the top row of a keyboard can spell. Proterotype is rare, but 11 letters. Qwerty is an OED word.

Q.What does cc stand for when copying people into emails? P.s i think you are so knowledgable and amazing and i think i love you enough to do a sex piss!

A.The acronym CC on a letter or email stands for 'carbon copy'. It comes from the days of typewriters, when carbon paper was used to copy letters.

Q.What is the alphabet in chinese

A.Chinese writing does not have an alphabet, instead, it uses symbols, about 60,000 of them. Chinese typewriters have several thousand characters.