Jun
09
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog
Ever seen that one before? It’s called a holoalphabetic sentence or pangram. Translated, this means is a sentence using every letter of the alphabet at least once. You may have seen them because they are used to test keyboards, typewriters, fonts, etc. to ensure that every character is visible.
For the history of this phrase, you can check out Wikpedia’s reference.
Wikipedia also has a large list of pangrams which I’ve listed partially here:
- Quick zephyrs blow, vexing daft Jim
- Two driven jocks help fax my big quiz
- The five boxing wizards jump quickly
- A very bad quack might jinx zippy fowls
- Few quips galvanized the mock jury box
- Watch “Jeopardy!”, Alex Trebek’s fun TV quiz game
- My girl wove six dozen plaid jackets before she quit
- A quick movement of the enemy will jeopardize six gunboats