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Hello all,
Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but perhaps someone could steer me in the right direction. There is a sentence, semantically nonsensical but syntactically valid, making use of every letter. It's shorter in length than the ubiquitous "the quick brown fox...", but I can't recall what form it takes.
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WELCOME int main (void)!
I feel I should be asking this question in my Professor Juliius Sumner Miller voice "Why is this so?" That is, why are you void? What's going on? I hope you're not void, cos I'm sure you've got lots more good things to discuss here.
Glad you're aBoard.
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What one word contains all 26 letters?
some folks should know this
The Only WO'N!
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What one word contains all 26 letters?
Alphabet?
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Welcome aBoard, int main(void)! Good to see another Canadian on Board. You join the illustrious ranks of belMarduk (from Montreal) and Rouspeteur (Ottawa) and me (Newfoundland)! (and sorry, in advance, if I missed any other Canadian posters here...just doing this off the top of my head...) I don't really have an answer to your question, though. And hev - it looks like C code - maybe - but the syntax doesn't quite make sense to me - then again the software I use is from 1989 so I'm just a WEE bit outdated! (Oh well, whatever works!)
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1.The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog & other pangrams ... black quartz judge my vow. Squdgy fez, blank jimp crwth vox! The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. Prized waxy jonquils choke big farm vats. A quick brown ... http://www.navvy.com/pdds/pangram.html
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Alphabet
The word does not contain all twenty-six letters; the thing to which the word refers does.
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Nit pick alertI say, I say...it's just an old joke, son! (well, "enigma", really) Enigma (from The Boys Own Book, 1829):
A word of three syllables seek till you find, That has in it the twenty-four letters combin'd. Answer: Alphabet. More riddles here: http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=32709The Only WO'N!
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Quick-wafting zephyrs vex bold Jim.
(29 letters total)
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