The sentence:
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
is a 'pangram' because it uses every character in the English alphabet.
It's used in teaching touch-typing, in displaying fonts, testing keyboards/typewriters.
"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"
is a 'pangram' because it uses every character in the English alphabet.
It's used in teaching touch-typing, in displaying fonts, testing keyboards/typewriters.
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It showed up in Army manuals as a training exercise for Morse code instruction.
"Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow" has only 29 characters to our jumping fox's 35, but the spelling challenge level is harder.
Same for:
"Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex." (28 letters)
"Mr. Jock, TV quiz PhD, bags few lynx" (26 letters!)
The "Thousand Character Classic", for example, contains 1000 characters, each used only once, grouped in four-line rhyming stanzas similar to the "alphabet song".
Virtually every Chinese-literate person had it memorized.
Sanskrit has the Śiva·sūtras, similar, but for grammatical constructions.
Here's a list where you can pick your own favorite English pangram.
For me and my house, we believe:
"The five boxing wizards jump quickly."
https://mseffie.com/assignments/calligraphy/Plethora%20of%20Pangrams.pdf
https://www.joaquinbaldwin.com/pages/illust...
Falsches Üben von Xylophonmusik quält jeden größeren Zwerg.
(Wrong practicing of xylophone music tortures every bigger dwarf)
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
It should be upside-down and backwards. I got pretty good at reading it that way, when I was setting type for a neighbourhood newspaper I started as a kid.