QWERTYUIOP

== English == === Alternative forms === qwertyuiop === Etymology === From the top row of letters on a QWERTY keyboard. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌkwəːtɪˈjuːiˌɒp/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˌkwɚtiˈjuiˌɑp/, /-ɾi-/ Hyphenation: qwer‧ty‧u‧i‧op === Noun === QWERTYUIOP (uncountable) Synonym of QWERTY. 1998 December, Bruce Sterling, Distraction: A Novel (Bantam Spectra Book), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN; Bantam mass market edition, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, October 1999, →ISBN, page 382: Oscar had been assured many times that the venerable QWERTYUIOP keyboard design would never, ever be replaced. Supposedly, this was due to a phenomenon called "technological lock-in." QWERTYUIOP was a horribly bad design for a keyboard—in fact, QWERTYUIOP was deliberately designed to hamper typists—but the effort required to learn it was so crushing that people would never sacrifice it.