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06/16/11, 06:19 PM
Did you know about pangram? A pangram, or holoalphabetic sentence, is a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet at least once. The most famous pangram is probably the thirty-five-letter-long “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. As Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_quick_brown_fox_jumps_over_the_lazy_dog) states this has been used to test typing equipment since at least the late 1800s.
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Pangrams are an important tool for testing typing equipment and compactly showing off every letter of a typeface; trying to pack every letter into as short a sentence as possible is also a sort of sport among linguists and puzzle-solvers.
Here are a few that are famous or otherwise cool:
“Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow”: Used by Adobe InDesign to display font samples. (29 letters)
“Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz”: Similarly, used by Windows XP for some fonts. (31 letters)
“Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs”: According to Wikipedia, this one is used on NASA’s Space Shuttle. (32 letters)
“Cwm fjord bank glyphs vext quiz”: Amazingly, this 26-word-long sentence uses every letter only once, though it uses some pretty archaic words; translates to “Carved symbols in a mountain hollow on the bank of an inlet irritated an eccentric person.”
“Cozy lummox gives smart squid who asks for job pen”: A 41-letter tester sentence for Mac computers.
Few other cool holoalphabetic sentences:
“Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes”
“Now fax quiz Jack!’ my brave ghost pled”
“Watch Jeopardy!, Alex Trebek’s fun TV quiz game”
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Pangrams are an important tool for testing typing equipment and compactly showing off every letter of a typeface; trying to pack every letter into as short a sentence as possible is also a sort of sport among linguists and puzzle-solvers.
Here are a few that are famous or otherwise cool:
“Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow”: Used by Adobe InDesign to display font samples. (29 letters)
“Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz”: Similarly, used by Windows XP for some fonts. (31 letters)
“Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs”: According to Wikipedia, this one is used on NASA’s Space Shuttle. (32 letters)
“Cwm fjord bank glyphs vext quiz”: Amazingly, this 26-word-long sentence uses every letter only once, though it uses some pretty archaic words; translates to “Carved symbols in a mountain hollow on the bank of an inlet irritated an eccentric person.”
“Cozy lummox gives smart squid who asks for job pen”: A 41-letter tester sentence for Mac computers.
Few other cool holoalphabetic sentences:
“Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes”
“Now fax quiz Jack!’ my brave ghost pled”
“Watch Jeopardy!, Alex Trebek’s fun TV quiz game”
Read more: Sentence That Contain Every Letter Of The Alphabet | Most Amazing News (http://www.mostamazingnews.com/featured/sentence-that-contain-every-letter-of-the-alphabet/314#ixzz1PUoTYbXE) http://www.mostamazingnews.com (http://www.mostamazingnews.com/featured/sentence-that-contain-every-letter-of-the-alphabet/314#ixzz1PUoTYbXE)