Faunet
noun phrase
Confusion; mistakes: 98 percent accurate and 2 percent etaoin shrdlu
[1931+; fr the phrase typeset by sweeping one’s finger down the two left-hand columns of Linotype keys, in a gesture made by compositors when they have erred and must begin again]
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