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Hello, What is Lorem Ipsum?
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.
Hello Michelle, Where can I get some?
There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don't look even slightly believable.
- College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words
- classical Latin literaturefrom 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old
- going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need
- ombined with a handful of model sentence
Hi, Where does it come from?
Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source.
Hello Michelle, Where can I get some?
There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form.
making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable.