Contrary to popular belief,
Lorem Ipsum is not simply
random text. It has roots in
a piece of classical Latin
literature from 45
BC, making it
over 2000
years old.
Richard
McClintoc
Latin professor
at Hampden
-Sydney College in
Virginia, looked up one
of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and goin through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source.
There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don't look even slightly believable.
Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC.
This book is atreatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..", comes from a line in section
There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don't look even slightly believableThere are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered injected humour
All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet.It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable.