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• Has everyone noticed that all the letters of the word "database" are typed with the left hand?
  Now the layout of the QWERTYUIOP typewriter keyboard was designed, among other things, to facilitate the even use of both hands....
• QWERTY /kwer'tee/ adj. [from the keycaps at the upper left] Pertaining to a standard English-language typewriter keyboard (sometimes called the Sholes keyboard after its inventor)
  as opposed to Dvorak or non-US-ASCII layouts or a space-cadet keyboard or APL keybo Historical note...
• QWERTY: /kwer'tee/ [from the keycaps at the upper left] adj.
  Pertaining to a standard English-language typewriter keyboard (sometimes called the Sholes keyboard after its inventor), as opposed to Dvorak or foreign-language layouts or a {space-cadet keyboard} or APL keyboard....
• bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
  The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
• 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
• pace-cadet keyboard n. A now-legendary device used on MIT LISP machines, which inspired several still-current jargon terms and influenced the design of EMACS.
  It was equipped with no fewer than seven shift key...
• Everthing is farther away than it used to be. It is even twice as far to the corner and they have added a hill.
  I have given up running for the bus; it leaves earlier than it used to....