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A typebar is an 'arm' inside a typewriter with a character on the end of it. There are generally two characters per typebar, one which will be printed if the corresponding key is struck by itself, the other of which will be printed if the corresponding key is struck while the shift key is depressed. Prior to the advent of the electronic typewriter, the typebars would often jam when two or more keys were depressed simultaneously. Such jamming led to the creation of the QWERTY keyboard.
typewriter is a mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic device with a set of "keys" that, when pressed, cause characters to be printed on a document, usually paper.
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grapheme is the fundamental unit in written language. Graphemes include alphabetic letters, Chinese characters, numerals, punctuation marks, and all the individual symbols of any of the world's writing systems.
In a phonemic orthography, a grapheme corresponds to one phoneme.
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In a phonemic orthography, a grapheme corresponds to one phoneme.
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shift key is a modifier key on a keyboard, used to type capital letters and other alternate "upper" characters. There are typically two shift keys, on the left and right sides of the row below the home row.
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QWERTY (pronounced /kwɜːti/) is the most common modern-day keyboard layout on English-language computer and typewriter keyboards.
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