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A Sentence With Every Letter

A Sentence With Every Letter

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Who can think of the shortest possible, grammatically correct which contains every letter of the alphabet?

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http://www.google.co.il/search?hl=iw&q=pangram&meta=

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Or you can just look it up... :/

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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Longer: jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz

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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog ?

Surely "A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is shorter yet still gramatically correct.

"Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs" is the shortest I know of.

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Originally posted by wittywonka
Who can think of the [b]shortest possible, grammatically correct which contains every letter of the alphabet?[/b]
cwm fjord bank glyphs vext quiz*

is the accepted shortest pangram, isn't it?

* Carved figures in a mountain hollow and on the bank of a fjord irritated an eccentric.

🙂

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Originally posted by ArnoldSideways
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog ?

Surely "A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is shorter yet still gramatically correct.

"Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs" is the shortest I know of.
it may be gramatically correct but you're missing the t and the h! also, when have you ever heard this sentence spoken in conversation.... has a fox ever really jumped over a lazy dog... why would it... a fox is cunning, he would just walk round the lazy dog, what the point in jumping over him, why does the fox have to be quick, the dog is lazy, the dog's not gonna catch him, i dont get it

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Originally posted by eatmybishop
it may be gramatically correct but you're missing the t and the h! also, when have you ever heard this sentence spoken in conversation.... has a fox ever really jumped over a lazy dog... why would it... a fox is cunning, he would just walk round the lazy dog, what the point in jumping over him, why does the fox have to be quick, the dog is lazy, the dog's not gonna catch him, i dont get it
missing t and h ?
look a bit better

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Originally posted by sannevssr
missing t and h ?
look a bit better
yes... my mistake! it was late!