Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?!

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From: bert
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On Friday, 23 January 2015 14:38:40 UTC, mo_b...@mogadore.net  wrote:
> On Thursday, January 7, 1999 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Adrian Thompson wrote:
> > Can anyone out there tell me why Windows uses Ctrl-V as a keyboard 
> > shortcut for Paste?
> CTRL V is abbreviation of Control Vipectus. "Vipectus" is latin for "paste

My Latin dictionary doesn't have "vipectus" or anything like it.
It says that "paste" is "farina chartaria", or loosely speaking 
"flour [to apply] to paper".
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