#pangram

[galaga-senpai]

Which is your favorite pangram?

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

The five boxing wizards jump quickly.

Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs.

When zombies arrive, quickly fax Judge Pat.

Waltz, nymph, for quick jigs vex Bud.

Two driven jocks help fax my big quiz.

Watch “Jeopardy!” Alex Trebek’s fun TV quiz game.

Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.

(a different one I'm about to put in the tags)

Voting ended onMay 30, 2023

(a pangram is any sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet)

[robotblues]

jackdaws looove my big sphinx of quartz. almost as much as they love my big goat of unthreshed straw

[genericdegraded]

i had it with bats that eat kiwi and storks that play the saxophone. i need a good spanish pangram for my own use. brb

[autistobrat]

My Handwriting

(this is my usual handwriting)

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

the sentence is the most commonly used pangram (a sentence that contains all English lexicons)

(I will soon post all pangrams I could think of)

[ironmyrmidon]

The standard English pangram (phrase that contains all of the letters) is "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." I'm not here to argue in favor of "sphinx of black quartz, hear my vow" or any other popular alternative.

Foxes aren't brown? There's white foxes, red foxes, gray foxes, tan foxes, but brown? I suppose gray foxes and island foxes have rust-colored bellies, but that's more reddish-gray.

I get that you need brown for the b, r, w, and n. I wouldn't complain about the brown fox, if there wasn't another animal in this sentence that is very frequently brown! "The quick fox jumps over the lazy brown dog" works just as well and is much more realistic.

Why is this important?

It's not.

[nonameformesorry]

Cat-or-sometimes-birdlike mythological creature comprised of a mineral that is dark in colour, could you tell me if my promise is any good?

[melbug-ithink]

a pangram in toki pona:

jan li mute e poki suwi

contains all 14 toki pona letters (with 4 duplicates)

rough translation: "the person makes more boxes of sweets"

[beastlyanachronism]

Pangram Frenzy!

I recently read Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn and it sent me into a slightly manic 48-hour obsession with pangrams. The novel involves a challenge to create the shortest possible sentence containing all the letters of the alphabet. My efforts are below — feel free to add your own! For reference, the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog is 35 letters and sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow is 29 letters (and I don't think anyone's going to beat that without using acronyms, which are not quite in the spirit of the game).

Quit whimpering and gaze at my five closed jukeboxes. (44)

Viking's experimental jacuzzi whiffs badly of squid. (44)

Ma quickly whizzes a fig into overpriced juicebox. (42)

Judge's iffy zipline remark vexes the Basque crowd. (42)

My boyfriend's jacket quiz vexes clawed gryphons. (41)

Fabled ex-provost quizzes joking chimney sweep. (40)

Quixotic jazz man bowed very freakishly to pig. (39)

Hazy bookworm excavated piquant fig jellies. (38)

Quivering whisky addict boxed limp jazz fan. (37)

Quack's crazy botox jape delights five women. (37)

Jovial minx pranks quoll with big fuzzy dice. (37)

My five-quid prize bought six wan jackals. (34)