Saturday, July 4, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
VISIT TO IIM AHEMDABAD
s the use of
typewriters ewin the late 19th century
, the phrase began appearing in typing and stenography lesson books as a practice sentence. Early examples of publications which utilized the phrase include Illustrative Shorthand by Linda Bronson (1888),[1] How to Become Expert in Typewriting: A Complete Instructor Designed Especially for the Remington Typewriter (1890), and Typewriting Instructor and Stenographer's Hand-book (1892).
By the turn of the century, the phrase had become widely known. In the January 10, 1903 issue of Pitman's Phonetic Journal, it is referred to as "the well known memorized typing line embracing all the letters of the alphabet".[2] Robert Baden-Powell's book Scouting for Boys (1908) uses the phrase as a practice sentence for signalling."
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