Ridiculous history is a production of I Heart Radio. The Welcome back to the show, Ridiculous Historians. Thank you as always so much for tuning in.

Let's give a tippity tap tip of the cap to our

super producer Mr Max Williams. I am the quarti of your heart. Yes you are.

The Devou, maybe.

Oh man, I love the word Quirty.

As a word, I know it's not actually a word, but it's fun to say.

It's American English. Everything can be a word. I'm Ben Bullen. You're Noel Brown. We are we are indeed talking about the

Quirti keyboard if you are listening on your phone folks and if you are in a safe

place you're not driving why not pull up your text message app and look at the

little click-at-clat keyboard on there.

There is a very high likelihood that at the top left of that keyboard,

you will see the following letters,

Q-W-E-R-T-Y. following letters, Q, W, E, R, T, Y, in that order.

Why?

That's today.

Because we like you.

Yeah, right, because we like you. Yeah. It's a

Queerty is the keyboard layout on your laptop. It's on your phone. It's freaking

everywhere and we kid you not folks the design makes no sense.

Noel this is actually something that I was talking about with Dylan's new dad.

Mr. Mackenzie suggested this episode.

So Mr. M if you're tuning in, great idea, sir.

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