Story: There's no escape from qwerty typecasting
qwertz - that would be Germany (and probably Austria and German-speaking Switzerland).
I've always imagined that the different punctuation layout between the US and UK is to do with sticking the pound sign (£) in. Why this has to make everything so different I don't know, but I'm pretty sure that's the only symbol we have on our keyboards that they don't
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