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Have you ever seen a website where the product descriptions, introductory text and about us pages all have text in it that looks like this? If so, don't despair. Your web designer has not created your site in a foreign language. Lorem Ipsum is a defined standard of fake text that is used in websites, publishing, graphic designs and in the printing industry to fill up space and show customers what a page would look like once the customer has added their actual wording.

Because Lorem Ipsum text approximates the character distribution of letters in the English language it is a good way of filling a page up when real text is not available.  When we build a website at Osc Works, we put lorem text into the product descriptions, about us pages, shipping information pages, contact us pages and more. Our customers can then change it to suit their business.

Lorem Ipsum text originated from a Latin passage in a book called De finibus bonorum et malorum but the words and sentences are jumbled so do not have actual translations. It came about after a printer in the 1500s took some Latin text and scrambled it up to make a sample font book. Lorem Ipsum became popular in the 1960s and has been added to as the original Latin text did not have some of the letters of the alphabet that are now in use.