{"id":18481,"date":"2022-09-17T13:30:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T20:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18481"},"modified":"2022-09-17T13:30:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T20:30:06","slug":"amaranath-sasesusos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2022\/09\/17\/amaranath-sasesusos\/","title":{"rendered":"Amaranath sasesusos"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Today I learned that people whose job was to align the type bars in typewriters (during manufacture) used this quasi-sentence to test the alignment:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Amaranath sasesusos Oronoco initiation secedes Uruguay Philadelphia<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>An explanation, from Darren Wershler-Henry\u2019s 2005 book <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/The_Iron_Whim\/38cd7wS1-RsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=sasesusos&pg=PA137&printsec=frontcover\">The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting<\/a><\/cite>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\u201cAmaranath,\u201d the misspelled name of an imaginary flower, checks the alignment of the vowel \u201ca\u201d between a number of common consonants. \u201cOronoco\u201d checks the \u201co\u201d key, while \u201csecedes,\u201d \u201cinitiation\u201d and \u201cUruguay\u201d check three vowels that are among the most commonly used of all letters, \u201ce,\u201d \u201ci,\u201d and \u201cu.\u201d \u201cSasesusos\u201d not only compares four of the five vowels in the same word against the baseline of the letter \u201cs,\u201d but also \u201cincludes several of the most common letter combinations in twentieth-century business English.\u201d \u201cPhiladelphia\u201d checks the horizontal alignment of \u201ci\u201d and \u201cl,\u201d the narrowest letters on the keyboard.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frequency","category-typography"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18482,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18481\/revisions\/18482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}