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Until recently, the prevailing view assumed\u00a0lorem ipsum<\/em>\u00a0was born as a nonsense text. \u201cIt’s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,\u201d\u00a0Before & After<\/em>\u00a0magazine\u00a0answered a curious reader, \u201cIts \u2018words\u2019 loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English, which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Cicero would put it, \u201cUm, not so fast.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The placeholder text, beginning with the line \u201cLorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit\u201d<\/em>, looks like Latin because in its youth, centuries ago, it was Latin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar from Hampden-Sydney College, is\u00a0credited\u00a0with discovering the source behind the ubiquitous filler text. In seeing a sample of\u00a0lorem ipsum<\/em>, his interest was piqued by\u00a0consectetur<\/em>\u2014a genuine, albeit rare, Latin word. Consulting a Latin dictionary led McClintock to a passage from\u00a0De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cOn the Extremes of Good and Evil\u201d), a first-century B.C. text from the Roman philosopher Cicero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how did the classical Latin become so incoherent? According to McClintock, a 15th century typesetter likely scrambled part of Cicero’s De Finibus<\/em> in order to provide placeholder text to mockup various fonts for a type specimen book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s difficult to find examples of lorem ipsum<\/em> in use before Letraset made it popular as a dummy text in the 1960s, although McClintock says he remembers coming across the lorem ipsum<\/em> passage in a book of old metal type samples. So far he hasn’t relocated where he once saw the passage, but the popularity of Cicero in the 15th century supports the theory that the filler text has been used for centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And anyways, as\u00a0Cecil Adams reasoned, \u201c[Do you really] think graphic arts supply houses were hiring classics scholars in the 1960s?\u201d Perhaps. But it seems reasonable to imagine that there was a version in use far before the age of Letraset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an\u00a0alternative theory, (and because Latin scholars do this sort of thing) someone tracked down a 1914 Latin edition of\u00a0De Finibus<\/em>\u00a0which challenges McClintock’s 15th century claims and suggests that the dawn of\u00a0lorem ipsum<\/em>\u00a0was as recent as the 20th century. The 1914 Loeb Classical Library Edition ran out of room on page 34 for the Latin phrase \u201cdolorem ipsum\u201d (sorrow in itself). Thus, the truncated phrase leaves one page dangling with \u201cdo-\u201d, while another begins with the now ubiquitous \u201clorem ipsum\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether a medieval typesetter chose to garble a well-known (but non-Biblical\u2014that would have been sacrilegious) text, or whether a quirk in the 1914 Loeb Edition inspired a graphic designer, it’s admittedly an odd way for Cicero to sail into the 21st century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Until recently, the prevailing view assumed\u00a0lorem ipsum\u00a0was born as a nonsense text. \u201cIt’s not Latin, though it looks like it, and it actually says nothing,\u201d\u00a0Before & After\u00a0magazine\u00a0answered a curious reader, \u201cIts \u2018words\u2019 loosely approximate the frequency with which letters occur in English, which is why at a glance it looks pretty real.\u201d As Cicero would…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162,"parent":0,"template":"","ca_portfolio_gallery_category":[23],"class_list":["post-161","ca_portfolio_gallery","type-ca_portfolio_gallery","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ca_portfolio_gallery_category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozythemesdemos.com\/blockbooster-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ca_portfolio_gallery\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozythemesdemos.com\/blockbooster-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ca_portfolio_gallery"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozythemesdemos.com\/blockbooster-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ca_portfolio_gallery"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozythemesdemos.com\/blockbooster-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozythemesdemos.com\/blockbooster-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozythemesdemos.com\/blockbooster-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ca_portfolio_gallery_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozythemesdemos.com\/blockbooster-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ca_portfolio_gallery_category?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}