The strange history of lorem ipsum — a radio piece by PRI on our favorite dummy text. Looks like “Lorem” is actually a shortened form of “Dolorem” (pain) caused by a copyist looking for dummy text starting at the top of a page containing the second half of a hyphenated word within a Latin passage by Cicero. Dizzy yet?

posted by Ted Boren on Wednesday, Jan 28, 2009
tagged with dummy text, lorem ipsum, latin