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    What is a sentence which contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet?

    Question #104666. Asked by cricketers. (Apr 13 09 10:51 AM)


    Midget40

    		"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

    Sentences containing every letter of the alphabet are called "pangrams", or "holalphabetic sentences".

    http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxthequi.html

    Apr 13 09, 11:01 AM
    gonnzo

    		""Quartz glyph job vex'd cwm finks." (The act of carving symbols into quartz irritated ruffians from a Welsh river valley.)"

    This one uses each letter once and only once. There are a bunch more here.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pangrams

    Apr 13 09, 2:41 PM
    foosyerdoos

    		What about "The letters are a,b,c,d,e........."
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_alphabet

    Apr 13 09, 3:11 PM
    star_gazer

    		When I took typing as a lad we were required to type "A quick movement of the enemy will jeopardize six gunboats." Over and over.

    http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/pangram0.html

    [Added reference link - McG]

    Apr 13 09, 5:09 PM
    davejacobs

    		Cwm fjord bank glyphs vext quiz
    like gonnzo's is another that uses each letter exactly once.
    A 'quiz' is an eccentric person. The sentence is fully explained here, with a defence of the use of 'vext' without an apostrophe.
    http://www.chaos.org.uk/~pdh/string/alphabet/mputnam.htm

    Apr 14 09, 12:41 AM
    davejacobs

    		No fewer than seven perfect pangrams are given here!
    http://wapedia.mobi/en/List_of_pangrams#1.

    Apr 14 09, 12:45 AM

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