Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source.
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Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).
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