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

Question #104666. Asked by cricketers.
Last updated May 28 2021.

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Midget40 star
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Midget40 star
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Answer has 13 votes.

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

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

link http://www.chaos.org.uk/~pdh/string/alphabet.htm

Response last updated by satguru on Nov 29 2016.
Apr 13 2009, 11:01 AM
gonnzo
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""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.

link http://clagnut.com/blog/2380/#Perfect_pangrams_in_English_.2826_letters.29


Response last updated by gtho4 on May 28 2021.
Apr 13 2009, 2:41 PM
foosyerdoos
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foosyerdoos
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Answer has 6 votes.
What about "The letters are a,b,c,d,e........."
link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_alphabet

Apr 13 2009, 3:11 PM
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Answer has 6 votes.
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.

link https://10fastfingers.com/text/1666-These-Sentences-Have-All-the-Letters-in-the-Alphabet



[ cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/pangram0.html no longer exists ]

Response last updated by gtho4 on Nov 29 2016.
Apr 13 2009, 5:09 PM
davejacobs
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Answer has 5 votes.
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.
link http://www.chaos.org.uk/~pdh/string/alphabet/mputnam.htm

Apr 14 2009, 12:41 AM
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