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[Dori Green]

Dick Margulis wrote,

My speculation is that the term greeking comes from "it's all
Greek to me" and is basically a bit of printers' humor.

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Except that the process of substituting the Greek letters pre-dates the
"it's all..." phrase.  Maybe somebody bought his press at a yard sale and it
didn't include the Greek stamps so he improvised with Latin and the practice
caught on.

It's been only recently, after all, that the definition of a "literate"
person meant that they could write and converse not only in their native
language but also in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and at least two other modern
languages.  I was _very_ impressed (and humbled) by my grandmother's high
school report card!

Dori Green